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 _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
