On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Attila Sukosd wrote: > Yes, you do. > > The concept is similar to the Xvnc server in the way it works, where > you can spawn any X11 apps by setting the DISPLAY var to the correct X > server. > > I'm not sure about extension support though? (Xrandr etc) I guess > since its using Xorg and it is "just" another display driver, all the > other standard Xorg stuff should also be there?
Well, this is where my X knowledge fails me. You are absolutely correct that it is just another driver (actually three - the spiceqxl one is just qxl with it's own spice server, and a mouse and keyboard drivers to complete that), but I don't know about extensions much - it does seem to work with xrandr easily enough. > > Attila > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:02 PM, John A. Sullivan III > <jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
