On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 09:04:21AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote: > >> Did I miss some implication of the libvirt connection? Can an alternate > >> client solution be leveraged instead? > > > > Not sure what you mean about alternate client solution - alternate to > > the above? concerning libvirt, it doesn't change anything. Libvirt deals > > with the vm control, setup, migration, upgrade of qemu without affecting > > the guest, but it doesn't provide the spice client, the, well, spice > > client does that :) > > Well, I don't know; I was wondering if in my ignorance I had missed a > solution path that would be obvious to someone else. Looks like I > didn't :-/. > > > > > I think a html5 client (meaning Javascript / HTML5) would be the best > > approach. Adding websocket support is the easy part, I think it should > > be done directly in the server but a proxy also makes sense later. The > > harder part is writing the client. But such a client would have a number > > of deficiencies compared to a native client: > > * less compression - probably not possible to implement QUIC / ZLIB or > > any other compression that isn't provided by the DOM. (this is from > > the noVNC experience). > > * no usb remoting (also no smartcard, but that's less of an issue). > > Yes, and in general, I think an html5 client would have to have a > somewhat reduced feature set. > > > > > And the main problem: > > * no one stepped up to write one. > > That's always the rub, isn't it :-/. > > I've been toying with the idea of trying to put together a proof of > concept html5 client. That's likely to be folly, but I did want to be > sure no one else was working on it.
I'd really like to have one but I know I personally can't justify working on it, if you started doing that it would be great and I'd be glad to help from the sidelines. > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > 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
