Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/11] display: add -display spice-app launching a Spice client

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:24 PM Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:07:03PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Add a new display backend that will configure Spice to allow a remote
> > client to control QEMU in a similar fashion as other QEMU display
> > backend/UI like GTK.
> >
> > For this to work, it will set up Spice server with a unix socket, and
> > register a VC chardev that will be exposed as Spice ports. A QMP
> > monitor is also exposed as a Spice port, this allows the remote client
> > fuller qemu control and state handling.
> >
> > - doesn't handle VC set_echo() - this doesn't seem a strong
> >   requirement, very few front-end use it
> > - spice options can be tweaked with other -spice arguments
> > - Windows support shouldn't be hard to do, but will probably use a TCP
> >   port instead
> > - we may want to watch the child process to quit automatically if it
> >   crashed
>
> Hmm, not working on RHEL-7:
>
>   qemu-system-x86_64: Failed to launch spice+unix:///tmp/.QON7WZ/spice.sock 
> URI: The specified location is not supported
>
> virt-viewer + remote-viewer are installed.
>
> any clue?

5 months old patch, not event released yet :( but virt-viewer should
have a release very soon hopefully

https://pagure.io/virt-viewer/c/c4f6142f15c4e51cbf427f5f1bf1fc6ac0e10d88?branch=master

thanks

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Marc-André Lureau