[ale] Would you like Spice with your KVM?

[Chris Ricker]

On 1/12/13 3:51 PM, JD wrote:
> The topic of Spice use instead of VNC came up during the virtualization talk
> last Thursday.
>
> I did get spice working this morning, but I must be doing something wrong since
> the normal performance seems sluggish. Just switching windows can be painful.  I
> must have something configured poorly.  Audio worked out of the box. Video was a
> different story completely.
>
> * KVM server is Ubuntu 12.04.x x64 (spice stuff from the repo)
> * virt-manager used for the setup (from 12.04 repo)
> * KVM ClientOS is Ubuntu x64 with LXDE loaded. (Doesn't know anything about spice.)
> * Remote client is Win7 x64 running remote-desktop.exe/.com from spice-space.org
>
> Does anyone have any tips or experiences they could share?

Did you install the spice drivers on the Windows side?