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Nick Couchman commented on GUACAMOLE-261:
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spice is much more powerful than any other protocol to give a real user
experience the refresh rate 1080 60fps you can aim multimedia content in all
fluency and compared to RDP it does not require expensive licensing CALs.
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Clearly you feel very passionate about this, and we would welcome the
contribution to the project if you have the desire, ability, and time to
implement it. Otherwise you'll have to wait until it becomes a higher priority
for the project and/or someone else undertakes it.
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Possible or not possible your websockify is maybe not compatible.
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Do not see it is a mistake, when your websocket he does not tolerate it in the
state I tested it so it's not a nonsense.
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Just because you tried connecting to a SPICE server with Guacamole and it
didn't work does not mean that it is "not compatible." This is a question of
implementation - the Guacamole Server (guacd) has to have support added to it
to translate the SPICE protocol into the Guacamole protocol so that it can be
used by a Guacamole-compatible client. Adding this support is not trivial.
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when you use the protocol rdp with guacamole to connect to a windows machine
you are obliged to acquire CAL RDS to be in the legality with respect to the
licensing of microsoft. this cost and not negligible.
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This is getting a little off-topic, but...while CAL RDS licenses are not
negligible in cost, there are plenty of people willing to pay for them.
Furthermore, if you want a single Windows system with multiple remote desktop
users, RDS and Citrix are the only ways (that I know of) to accomplish this -
otherwise, even with SPICE, you are limited to a single user per Windows
system. You can, of course, use a VDI model - however, if you're familiar with
Microsoft licensing, you know that in order to *legally* license VDI (including
using VNC or SPICE) you are required to purchase Windows 7/8/10 Enterprise
under certain agreements and maintain Software Assurance on those licenses.
I've purchase both, and VDI+Windows Enterprise is more expensive than Windows
Server+RDS.
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finally brief you took your decision and it is a pity...
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I am sure that SPICE will eventually be added to Guacamole, but, as with any
piece of software, commercial or open source, Guacamole focuses
time/effort/resources where the demand for features is higher, and SPICE hasn't
come up all that often.
> Support for SPICE protocol
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> Key: GUACAMOLE-261
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-261
> Project: Guacamole
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Michael Jumper
> Priority: Minor
>
> {panel:bgColor=#FFFFEE}
> *The description of this issue was copied from
> [GUAC-124|https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-124], an issue in the JIRA
> instance used by the Guacamole project prior to its acceptance into the
> Apache Incubator.*
> Comments, attachments, related issues, and history from prior to acceptance
> *have not been copied* and can be found instead at the original issue.
> {panel}
> SPICE is becoming quite popular, and is available as part of KVM. Guacamole
> should add support.
> http://www.spice-space.org/
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