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June 4, 2012 ยท View on GitHub

Prototype Spice Javascript client

Instructions and status as of June 1, 2012.

Requirements:

  1. Modern Firefox or Chrome

  2. A WebSocket proxy

    I've used websockify: https://github.com/kanaka/websockify works great.

  3. A spice server

    At this point, I've tested with qemu hosting a Fedora image, a Vista image, and with Xspice.
    Vista was pretty bad; I recommend either Linux or Xspice.

    ** Xspice has a processing issue; see this email: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2012-May/009020.html

Optional:

  1. A web server

    With firefox, you can just open file:///your-path-to-spice.html-here

    With Chrome, you have to set a secret config flag to do that, or serve the files from a web server.

Steps:

  1. Start the spice server

  2. Start websockify; my command line looks like this: ./websockify 5959 localhost:5900

  3. Fire up spice.html, set host + port + password, and click start

Status:

The TODO file should be a fairly comprehensive list of tasks required to make this client more fully functional.

As of June 1, 2012, this client is a nifty proof of concept, but a long way from being a useful production tool.