<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Technically it's not, yum complains about spice-client needing to be removed because virt-viewer replaced it.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-14 14:56 GMT+01:00 Daniel P. Berrange <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com" target="_blank">berrange@redhat.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 01:49:43PM +0100, Eric Viseur wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> During F18 lifecycle, the spice-client (spicec) package got deprecated in<br>
> favor of virt-viewer.<br>
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</div>NB, technically 'spicec' was replaced by the 'remote-viewer' program which<br>
is distributed as part of the 'virt-viewer' package.<br>
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> I'm currently working on a project where one of the goals is to make the<br>
> virtualization part as invisible as possible : you boot the computer, get<br>
> served a splash screen with some processing going behind the scenes, and<br>
> reach a Windows virtual machine made as transparent as possible.<br>
><br>
> As GPU passthrough isn't always possible, Spice is a must for this. Spicec<br>
> had the enormous advantage of being fully hidable : if you start it through<br>
> a simple xinit, you get no toolbar, no possibility to leave full screen.<br>
> It makes the illusion very realistic and, more importantly, forbids the<br>
> user from leaving the environment without shutting the VM down (which is<br>
> handled, of course).<br>
><br>
> Currently I'm manually overriding package dependencies to install it (I<br>
> follow Fedora releases to get the latest virt packages), but I'm concerned<br>
> actual dependancies will one day come to disappear, and I might not be able<br>
> to take advantage of new SPICE features.<br>
><br>
> Is there any way I can reproduce this behavior with a still supported<br>
> applications ?<br>
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</div>What's stopping you from installing it without overriding dependencies ?<br>
The kind of setup you describe should already be possible with a standard<br>
Fedora install.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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