Fedora15 with kvm and spice

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

>> Is there any documentation on how to properly configure fc15 to use
>> this? Is spice similar to VNC, in that it provides the remote
>> emulation and screen updates?
>>
>> Is there something that needs to be done to modify qemu to work with spice?
>>
>> I'm currently using the "vga" driver and performance is just horrible.
>> What is the proper way to get more reasonable video performance on a
>> win7 guest?
>>
>> Any ideas greatly appreciated.

I have a couple of F15 desktops running Windows XP guests. I start them 
using root cron:

@reboot sleep 30; /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -hda 
/var/lib/libvirt/images/MikeWindows.img -usbdevice tablet -m 2048 -k 
en-us -vga qxl -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing &

I found this was simpler than relying on virt-manager, especially when 
you want to move images to new machines.

Spice is a dramatic improvement over the older vnc-based methods. I love 
it...

- Mike