The SPICE protocol is implemented as a guest graphics adapter of QEMU. In other words, it's made for virtual desktops running under QEMU/KVM. That's why it does not work directly on a physical machine. Siggi On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 19:37 +0100, RedShift wrote: > On 11/16/10 21:28, Alexey Vasyukov wrote: > > Hello again. > > > > Unfortunatelly we do not have that much materials in English. (But if you can read Russian - welcome to http://www.ossportal.ru/technologies/rhev. :-) ) > > > > If you want just to see SPICE in action it is not hard. You need qemu with SPICE support on server and SPICE client on client. > > > > You need to start qemu on server with additional options: > > -spice port=<port>,disable-ticketing - use this one if you do not need password protection > > OR > > -spice port=<port>,password=<secret> - if you need to protect connection > > > > After it you can connect from client using > > spicec -h <host> -p <port> > > > > Additional options for compression, encryption, etc are described in qemu man page. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Alexey > > > > 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? > > > Glenn