[Discuss] Spice for a physical server?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I think Spice is a better solution for you if we can figure out how to 
set up a spice server. ]
You have a low bandwidth connection, and the Spice protocol places a lot 
of the X stuff in the client rather than the comm line.
http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_6&p=kvm&f=8

Spice is supported by CentOS and Fedora.

On 03/21/2013 03:50 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> I tried to install x2goserver, but it fails to install:
>
>> Error: Package: nxagent-3.5.0.17-3.1.x86_64 (X11_RemoteDesktop_x2go)
>>            Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-core
> Apparently "xorg-x11-fonts-core" is a SuSE package that doesn't exist on
> CentOS 6,
> and x2goserver won't install without it.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Peter Jalajas <pjalajas at tebuco.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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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