Re: [Xen-devel] Spice as alternative to vnc also on pv domU

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:13:58AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > I'm using Spice on my xen test system since end of 2011.
> > > > Spice is better than vnc for use on maintenance tasks and better than
> > > > nx/x2go/rdp installed on domU (even better when used with vdagent and 
> > > > usb
> > > > redirection).
> > > >
> > > > That should be possibile because also pv use qemu for vnc but I don't
> > > > unsterstand exactly how to implement it.
> > > > Is anybody out there interested in this task or already done it?
> > > 
> > > Upon further reflection though -- it seems like the best thing to do
> > > would be just to install spice servers in your PV guest.
> > 
> > And apparently it even exists!
> > The spice server used to be part of QEMU/KVM and not available
> > separately, but looking at http://spice-space.org/download.html, now
> > they have an "Xspice" server that probably does exactly what you need.
> > 
> > Otherwise implementing spice for PV guests could be non-trivial: spice
> > relies on a virtual graphic card called QXL, similar to a virtio device.
> > Typically Virtio devices work over PCI (even though other transport
> > mechanisms exist), and PV guests don't even have a PCI bus.
> > 
> 
> Hmm I thought spice works also *without* QXL ? 
> So PV domUs could have spice without QXL ? 

I thought that the QXL is a requirement but I might be wrong.

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel