On 04/22/2013 09:03 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > qxl is the guest video driver for "spice", a vnc/rdesktop like > connection to the guest either via the libvirt console, or across the > network vnc fashion. Its supposed to be "great", but maybe I need to > tune it some more as I cant see much of an advantage over the other two yet.
The benefit over SDL is that copy/paste works. The benefit over VNC is that it's a little more responsive. The downside is that it's more complicated, and nothing is ever documented, naturally. I have to tack this junk onto each VM (and choose a unique port): qemu-kvm \ ... -vga qxl \ -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing \ -device virtio-serial-pci \ -device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ -chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent \ ... Afterwards I can connect with, spicec -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5900 &
