Re: [Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 20:38 +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:01:27PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to ask about the current and future status of the XSpice driver for > > Xorg. I am very interested in virtualizing desktops for a bunch of users >

Re: [Spice-devel] Windows 7 dual-head - does it work?

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 06/25/2011 02:00 PM, Alon Levy wrote: > Works fine here. What version of the driver are you using? have you built > it yourself or are you using the ones on spice-space (I hope we have some > there :)? I am using version 0.6.1 from http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/qxl-win32-0.6.1.zip

Re: [Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread Attila Sukosd
Yes, you do. The concept is similar to the Xvnc server in the way it works, where you can spawn any X11 apps by setting the DISPLAY var to the correct X server. I'm not sure about extension support though? (Xrandr etc) I guess since its using Xorg and it is "just" another display driver, all the

Re: [Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 20:38 +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:01:27PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to ask about the current and future status of the XSpice driver for > > Xorg. I am very interested in virtualizing desktops for a bunch of users >

Re: [Spice-devel] Windows 7 dual-head - does it work?

2011-06-25 Thread Alon Levy
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > After figuring out the syntax required to start a VM with multiple QXL > devices, I've been able to get a "dual-head" Windows XP guest working. > (This is on a fully updated Fedora 15 system, using spicec.) > > I have been unable to ge

Re: [Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread Alon Levy
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:01:27PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to ask about the current and future status of the XSpice driver for > Xorg. I am very interested in virtualizing desktops for a bunch of users > without It is in active development, no stable release yet. It

Re: [Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread Sebastian Hesselbarth
On 06/25/2011 07:15 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > By "without the need of a full blown virtual machine," do you mean > something like linux-vserver or lxc? If so, we'd be very interested in > your progress. Thanks - John I don't know any of the both above but from a quick look at their des

Re: [Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 18:01 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to ask about the current and future status of the XSpice driver for > Xorg. I am very interested in virtualizing desktops for a bunch of users > without > the need of a full-blown virtual machine. I once compiled t

[Spice-devel] Current status of XSpice driver

2011-06-25 Thread Sebastian Hesselbarth
Hi, I'd like to ask about the current and future status of the XSpice driver for Xorg. I am very interested in virtualizing desktops for a bunch of users without the need of a full-blown virtual machine. I once compiled the driver from git but without luck of connecting a client to it (errors were

[Spice-devel] Windows 7 dual-head - does it work?

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Pilcher
After figuring out the syntax required to start a VM with multiple QXL devices, I've been able to get a "dual-head" Windows XP guest working. (This is on a fully updated Fedora 15 system, using spicec.) I have been unable to get this to work with Windows 7 (32-bit). It works fine in single-head m

Re: [Spice-devel] Unfair comparisons with RDP

2011-06-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 15:34 +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:36:26PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. Another question to be answered only if there is time. As > > we put SPICE head to head with the TSPlus implementation of RDP, SPICE > > seems to be coming up

[Spice-devel] Thoughts about improving streaming video

2011-06-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. Andrea Celestino was kind enough to email me off list about streaming video performance as reducing SPICE bandwidth consumption for streaming video is his project as a Computer Engineering student. He agreed that I could repost our conversation to invite input from others on the list.

Re: [Spice-devel] Unfair comparisons with RDP

2011-06-25 Thread Alon Levy
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:36:26PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. Another question to be answered only if there is time. As > we put SPICE head to head with the TSPlus implementation of RDP, SPICE > seems to be coming up a bit short and I expect it is somewhat unfairly > so. It