[Discuss] Spice for a physical server?

[pjalajas at tebuco.com (Peter Jalajas)]

Hi John,

I like x2go, FreeNX, and NX, in that order.

Let me know if you have any questions about them.
Pete

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:11:35 -0400
> From: John Abreau
> To: BLU Discuss <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: [Discuss] Spice for a physical server?
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> I was interested in trying out spice as an alternative to vnc, after
> hearing that it uses much less bandwidth than vnc and therefore gives far
> better performance.
>
> However, a google search is only turning up links about using spice to
> connect to virtual machines.
>
> Is is possible to use spice to connect to a regular, non-virtual server in
> order to use a graphical display on a remote server?
>
> The servers I want to connect to run CentOS 6.x.
>
>
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> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:19:27 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Spice for a physical server?

> On 03/21/2013 12:11 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>> I was interested in trying out spice as an alternative to vnc, after
>> hearing that it uses much less bandwidth than vnc and therefore gives far
>> better performance.
>>
>> However, a google search is only turning up links about using spice to
>> connect to virtual machines.
>>
>> Is is possible to use spice to connect to a regular, non-virtual server in
>> order to use a graphical display on a remote server?
>>
>> The servers I want to connect to run CentOS 6.x.
>>
>>
> Ditto except I want to be able to run a spice client on Windows 7. I
> currently run Thunderbird under X.
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:16:41 -0400
> From: Rich Pieri
> To: BLU Discuss <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Spice for a physical server?

> --On Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:11 AM -0400 John Abreau
>  wrote:
>
>> Is is possible to use spice to connect to a regular, non-virtual server in
>> order to use a graphical display on a remote server?
>
> SPICE is not a remote/virtual desktop system like VNC or RDP. It is a video
> driver that talks to a SPICE server compiled into QEMU. It may be possible
> to create a SPICE driver that incorporates the SPICE server component
> directly but such a thing does not currently exist that I can quickly find.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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