[CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Thu Nov 18 16:54:51 EST 2010
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:02:49PM -0500, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > So as I understand it correctly, this whole SPICE thing is just
> > something like VNC on steroids? Why can't we have this SPICE thing
> > work on physical hosts as well?
>
> SPICE was specifically designed to be a display protocol for a KVM virtual machine. Most remote display protocols have two pieces... a client and a server. SPICE has three... a client, a server, and a qxl device driver provided inside of a KVM virtual machine. It is probably possible to take the SPICE protocol and adapt it to work without the qxl device driver... but no one has done that yet.
>
> The best experience I've seen for a remote Linux box was provided by No Machine's NX protocol. FreeNX comes from NX but it appears FreeNX has stalled. Google created some project, I forget the name, forked from FreeNX I believe. No Machine is working on version 4.0 of NX and supposedly will be releasing a beta in the not too distant future. Some time ago they posted a lot of information about NX 4.0 on their website and it seems to rival SPICE to a certain degree... but that remains to be seen.
>
Google's NX implementation is called 'neatx': http://code.google.com/p/neatx/
> What I'd like to see happen would be for SPICE to be adapted to a general purpose remote display protocol or perhap Red Hat could buy No Machine and open source that protocol too. :)
>
NX the protocol is open already.. :)
Nomachine's NX server product is not..
-- Pasi
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