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I refuse to let SPICE die

I refuse to let SPICE die

Nefarius

Comments (57)

  • IndrekR
    Major confusion for me, as SPICE is well known circuit simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICEUsing it often. Mostly via ngspice nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngspice
  • c0l0
    As an irregular user of spice (via Proxmox PVE), I wish the stars would align for QEMU to gain support for sunlight/moonlight streaming directly in the hypervisor. That'd be a killer app for VDI-style infrastructure, now that accelerated guest graphics via Venus, VirtIO GPU, and Intel's support for SR-IOV is finally coming together.
  • franga2000
    I really don't get why redhat decided to kill SPICE. It was the only thing that got using a VM on open source virtualization (e.g. proxmox) close to the experience of using one on vmware.VNC is truly the worst remote desktop protocol you can have. Bad latency, bad quality, bad integration.
  • indigodaddy
    I used to use x2goserver which was and still is awesome.These days I prefer docker-based KASM Workspaces, or if you just want a nice GUI over your "bare-metal" VM or server then KasmVNC is great and easy to setup (not that KASM Workspaces is hard to setup)https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/kasm https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC
  • bityard
    I guess I hadn't been paying attention. Is this just the Windows SPICE client that Red Hat has abandoned, or are they moving toward dropping SPICE altogether? Does Red Hat no longer have a VDI product? (I'm sure they did at one point.)Regardless, thanks for picking this up, OP.
  • danilocesar
    The major challenge is not keep it building and compatible. The major challenge is to keep up with security issues.I wish op all the best, it's a tough journey
  • gbraad
    Why the pony with the hat if they do not sponsor it.
  • uecker
    I wish somebody would build a C version of xpra which does only has the client side for latency hiding and manages the remote caching using X11 messages only.
  • seymon
    Is there a good alternative to SPICE beside VNC?
  • arisudesu
    I'd rather you refuse to let ViGEmBus die. :)
  • woleium
    The lack of a decent SPICE client for mac is disappointing, it’s one if my greatest proxmox frustrationsEdit: great work on this fork, by the way.
  • IshKebab
    That is one creepy image.
  • krautburglar
    redhat spice driver was always touch and go — like every other linux well poisoning they do.x11rdp has been good to me.
  • anon
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  • fouc
    [dead]
  • kragen
    SPICE is not in any danger of dying; it's the thing every analog EE uses to simulate their circuits, and has been for 40 years. This remote desktop thing needs to change its name.