Technically it's not, yum complains about spice-client needing to be removed because virt-viewer replaced it.
Eric Viseur Etudiant Ingénieur Civil Electricien LinkedIn Profile<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=193442069&trk=tab_pro> 2014-02-14 14:56 GMT+01:00 Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 01:49:43PM +0100, Eric Viseur wrote: > > Hello, > > > > During F18 lifecycle, the spice-client (spicec) package got deprecated in > > favor of virt-viewer. > > NB, technically 'spicec' was replaced by the 'remote-viewer' program which > is distributed as part of the 'virt-viewer' package. > > > I'm currently working on a project where one of the goals is to make the > > virtualization part as invisible as possible : you boot the computer, get > > served a splash screen with some processing going behind the scenes, and > > reach a Windows virtual machine made as transparent as possible. > > > > As GPU passthrough isn't always possible, Spice is a must for this. > Spicec > > had the enormous advantage of being fully hidable : if you start it > through > > a simple xinit, you get no toolbar, no possibility to leave full screen. > > It makes the illusion very realistic and, more importantly, forbids the > > user from leaving the environment without shutting the VM down (which is > > handled, of course). > > > > Currently I'm manually overriding package dependencies to install it (I > > follow Fedora releases to get the latest virt packages), but I'm > concerned > > actual dependancies will one day come to disappear, and I might not be > able > > to take advantage of new SPICE features. > > > > Is there any way I can reproduce this behavior with a still supported > > applications ? > > What's stopping you from installing it without overriding dependencies ? > The kind of setup you describe should already be possible with a standard > Fedora install. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/:| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org:| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/:| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc:| >
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