SPICE without virtualization

[drunkahol]

SPICE has been getting there for a while now and seems to be a very capable mechanism for running remote desktops. (You see where I'm going?)

Virtual desktops have a good chance of becoming all the rage if SPICE gets a low enough latency implementation. But what about applying that low latency implementation to running over a physical layer? Who says the host machine has to be a virtual box? (See where I'm going now?)

Does anyone know if I can start using SPICE as an alternative to NX for example?

Cheer

Duncan

[pankajp]

I dont have an answer, just to add myself to the thread because i'm also interested in exactly same thing,
Spice as a replacement for VNC

[drunkahol]

So - that's just the two of then? Don't worry, I won't *BUMP* again. Just the once :-)

Cheers

Duncan

[AndrewSerk]

You may want to ask the question on spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org and/or make a feature request https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_b...?product=Spice More info at www.spice-space.org .

[Doomicle]

I've been messing with spice for the past week now and I can make a few observations:
Spice is not all that hard to get going using virt-manager with KVM, but all the ways I've seen it used are entirely based around KVM. So I wouldn't myself even try to set up spice seperate from KVM as it would involve an intimate knowlege of it's workings that I have no idea about, such as compiling the spice software components from source. As there aren't any compiled packages (RPM's DEB's etc) that I'm aware of that aren't designed to be used with KVM/Qemu.
My suspicion is that the spice server module is dependent on qemu/kvm.

Also, spice needs the KVM emulated "QXL" video card driver in order to function properly. It does work without using the QXL driver, but is very slow. On windows it's much much faster with it, and so far, much to my annoyance , I haven't noticed any difference in performance in linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, & Sabayon) with the QXL driver installed... I think I'll ask around here, and if all else fails try and get a copy of Red Hat linux to test it on, but I suppose it will exhibit much the same behavior as Fedora.