<div><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/17 Scott Dowdle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dowdle@montanalinux.org">dowdle@montanalinux.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Greetings,<br>
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> If you want just to see SPICE in action it is not hard. You need qemu<br>
> with SPICE support on server and SPICE client on client.<br>
><br>
> You need to start qemu on server with additional options:<br>
> -spice port=<port>,disable-ticketing - use this one if you do not need<br>
> password protection<br>
> OR<br>
> -spice port=<port>,password=<secret> - if you need to protect<br>
> connection<br>
><br>
> After it you can connect from client using<br>
> spicec -h <host> -p <port><br>
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</div>That isn't quite all there is to it.<br>
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What about installing the xorg-x11-drv-qxl package in the guest VM and configuring it in xorg.conf? �How exactly is that done? �Also I believe spice-server needs to be running on the VM host. �I'm kinda going by Fedora 14's SPICE feature page (<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice</a>) as well as a CentOS related one (<a href="http://www.geekgoth.de/tag/centos/" target="_blank">http://www.geekgoth.de/tag/centos/</a>).<br>
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Are all the packages one needs to get SPICE going on the VM host included in CentOS 5.5? �What packages are those? �Are there any steps required for inside of the VM?<br>
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Simply having the right qemu-kvm and starting up the VM with the -spice flag isn't all there is to it. �What many of us need are step by step instructions.<br>
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TYL,<br>
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</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">Scott Dowdle<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hello Scott.</div><div><br></div><div>The description above is enough to start SPICE and see it in action on Fedora 14. You have (a) Fedora host with KVM, qemu, spice-server, (b) VM with any OS (Fedora / CentOS / Windows - at your choice) on this host and (c) Fedora client with spice-client.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You launch on host the VM using qemu directly as described above. After it you can connect from Fedora client as described above. That's it. Everything just works.</div><div><br></div><div>qxl drivers on VM are nice to have but not mandatory - you can see SPICE in action without it. For details you can refer to�<a href="http://spice-space.org/docs/spice_user_manual.pdf">http://spice-space.org/docs/spice_user_manual.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Alexey</div>