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On 04/22/2013 09:03 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> qxl is the guest video driver for "spice", a vnc/rdesktop like |
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> connection to the guest either via the libvirt console, or across the |
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> network vnc fashion. Its supposed to be "great", but maybe I need to |
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> tune it some more as I cant see much of an advantage over the other two yet. |
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The benefit over SDL is that copy/paste works. The benefit over VNC is |
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that it's a little more responsive. The downside is that it's more |
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complicated, and nothing is ever documented, naturally. |
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I have to tack this junk onto each VM (and choose a unique port): |
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qemu-kvm \ |
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-vga qxl \ |
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-spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing \ |
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-device virtio-serial-pci \ |
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-device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ |
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-chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent \ |
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... |
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Afterwards I can connect with, |
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spicec -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5900 & |
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