I refuse to let SPICE die

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.

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.

woleium

The lack of a decent SPICE client for mac is disappointing, it’s one if my greatest proxmox frustrations Edit: great work on this fork, by the way.

IshKebab

That is one creepy image.

IndrekR

Major confusion for me, as SPICE is well known circuit simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE Using it often. Mostly via ngspice nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngspice

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.

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

krautburglar

redhat spice driver was always touch and go — like every other linux well poisoning they do. x11rdp has been good to me.

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

seymon

Is there a good alternative to SPICE beside VNC?

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.

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.

arisudesu

I'd rather you refuse to let ViGEmBus die. :)

gbraad

Why the pony with the hat if they do not sponsor it.

valdiorn

Who named this project? SPICE - the circuit emulator - is one of the oldest and most well known open source projects id all time.

krautburglar

Deprecation of SPICE was news to me. Issue thread on the removal: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592