[Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 08:05:32PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:09:49 -0400
> Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Spice looks like a promising technology for audio & video support:
> > 
> > http://spice-space.org/home.html
> 
> Sure, but Spice isn't a remote desktop technology. It's more like RHEV
> where the "desktop" is a KVM instance with drivers that offload things
> like display rendering to the client. I take that back. Spice isn't
> like RHEV. Spice is a part of RHEV.

Spice is in Fedora's virtualization stack as an option instead of VNC
for connecting to guests.  virt-viewer can use it to connect to
KVM/QEMU guests.  Chances are this will be in other popular Linux
distros soon if it isn't already.

Spice is initially being used to connect to virtual guests, but it
also has a network protocol and can be used over the network.  It also
can be used as a remote desktop technology.  See Xspice here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE_(protocol)

Fedora apparently has Xspice built although I haven't played with it:

xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 : XSpice is an X server that can be accessed by a Spice client