On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:31:55AM -0800, George Pyle wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I was kind of hoping there was a spice equivalent to > the vncserver or some kind of configuration or spice that would work. > Sounds like that would be a future.
Xspice _is_ the equivalent of vncserver. vncserver is standalone, so is Xspice, i.e. they are both X servers. What doesn't exist is remoting of your existing desktop - if that's what you want it is indeed in the future. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: Marc-Andr߽ן Lureau <mlur...@redhat.com> > To: Andrew Cathrow <acath...@redhat.com> > Cc: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; George Pyle <laxgoo...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:05 AM > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Control Linux desktop remotey? > > Hi > > ----- Mensaje original ----- > > > > > Is spice only useful for VDI? Can I control a Linux server or > > > desktop > > > remotely using a Spice client on Windows or is it best to use VNC > > > or > > > some other remote service/protocol. All of the examples I've read > > > require QEMU and describe setting up a guest OS using QEMU. Did I > > > miss something or is it just not possible? > > > > Spice will work for servers or desktops. > > If you don't install a driver in the guest it will perform in a > > similar fashion to vnc. > > George, if you want to use Spice as a remote desktop protocol only for > Linux, you may be interested by XSpice, the X server using Spice. This > way, your desktop/server doesn't need to run over QEMU. > > See > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/tree/README.xspice > . You won't get all of the nice features however, mostly only > display+inputs for now. > > Afaik, there is no way to export your current desktop (linux or windows) > with Spice. That would be neat to have. > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
