[ale] Survey - preferred Linux distro, desktop, and browser.

[JD]

I've been following spice for almost 2 yrs now. On Ubuntu 12.04, spice is
not-there-yet.  Bugs exist and I'm unwilling to change until 14.04 is released.
LTS or nuthin' for me.  It has worked ... ok ... for a few hours, but I've not
been able to recreate that connection again.

About 2 weeks ago, I attempted to get spice working again on a fresh 12.04.3
server, on the LAN and failed. The bug was already submitted.

As usual, other priorities quickly take precidence and NX from a netbook works
great.

NoMachine has released newer versions of their software ... and promise an
Android NX client in "December" - of course they didn't say which December. ;)

I'm not a fan of their newer v4.x clients, prefer the 3.5.x stuff. Never got the
v4 stuff working with my servers, but spent only 20 minutes trying, not worth
the effort.  I can wait for 14.04.

On 10/18/2013 11:07 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com
> <mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>> wrote:
> 
>       I'd love a
>     tablet-friendly NX client.
> 
> 
> If you run stuff in a VM for remote use, look for a spice client for android
> tablets. provides same "stuff" as NX (encrypted connection, low bandwidth) but
> even works for sound and streaming video and microphone. It also has support for
> local USB to VM connection (I think - may be in future release and not current).
> 
> I generally work with sound off. I was quite surprised during the ALE talk when
> my demo of remote winders7 desktop VM (through 3 firewalls!) over spice client
> had bleeps and blorps from winders sounds :-) . So I tested (in front the group
> - brave or foolish :-) if youtube would play and we were all pretty amazed at
> the quality and sound sync.
> 
> Don't know if it reasonable to try and use spice for a remote access tool yet.
> It requires an external networking layer to connect to the virtual nic, kvm over
> a virtualized serial connection inside the VM. That serial connection is
> encrypted and sent to the client.
> 
> I have several remote KVM setups at work. Drives me nuts with the java-based
> mouse offsets. Spice does not have that issue and with all proper drivers
> installed, it supports cut-n-paste from laptop to/from virtual desktop over
> spice (common mouse buffer! Still need <ctl>-c/v for winders but middle click OK
> for Linux clients.).
>