On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:02:51PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > 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 > > > without > > It is in active development, no stable release yet. It's meant to allow > > using spice > > clients to connect to an X server directly, never mind if it is running in > > a vm or not. > > It reuses the X driver, so it has the same features (and lacks the same > > features). > > > > > 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 about server > > > and > > > client disagree about modes AFAIR). > > > > > If you used master branch please pull and try again. I have no such > > problems, so > > I'd like to know why it isn't working for you. I'm using master > > spice+spice-protocl > > and just standard X clients. I am compiling against X master, so perhaps > > that's the > > problem. (or maybe I neglected to pull something and I'm actually using an > > old version > > of one of the protos). > > > > > Can someone please clarify the requirements for compiling the current > > > XSpice > > > driver. I really like to help improve the driver with debugging, coding, > > > and > > > suggestions. > > I mainly test it with everything needed built from git. Also, I've just > > updated > > master (forced), but generally the most uptodate right now is the xspice.vN > > (N=5 atm). > > > > Everything means xserver and other dependencies needed at runtime (xkbcomp > > etc.). > > I haven't documented everything yet, but see README.xspice: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~alon/xspice/tree/README.xspice > > > <snip> > Oh wow - I wasn't even aware this existed. Just to make sure I'm not > reading something into this which it isn't and to make sure I'm not > confused by the terminology (e.g., X server and client, SPICE server and > client) even after reading everything I could find about it, let me see > if I understand how this works. > > We start an X Server on any kind of Linux system - bare metal, lxc > container, etc. We can run any kind of X client on that Linux system > such as kdm or kdesktop and it will use the SPICE enabled X Server as a > regular X Server. We then connect a remote SPICE client to the SPICE > server on that system and are able to see that desktop remotely with all > the efficiencies of SPICE as if it was running inside of KVM. Do I > understand that correctly? Thanks - John > Yes. It still has some bugs, no secure connection yet, you can only change the port of spice from the xorg.conf file, none of the compression options are configurable.
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