[Discuss] Spice for a physical server?

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

I just tried freenx-server on the remote end and the standard NX client
downloaded from nomachine.com on the client end.

Performance is excellent; it feels as responsive as a local connection.



On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> 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<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
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>
>>>> 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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