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