[fedora-virt] About spicec deprecation

[Eric Viseur]

Technically it's not, yum complains about spice-client needing to be
removed because virt-viewer replaced it.

Eric Viseur
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2014-02-14 14:56 GMT+01:00 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at 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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