Hello,

During F18 lifecycle, the spice-client (spicec) package got deprecated in favor of virt-viewer.

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 ?

Best regards,