[ale] Using SPICE without KVM?

[DJ-Pfulio]

Connecting to a VM is easy, if I'm reading the stuff below
correctly. From my laptop or the VM host (hadar), if I want
to connect to regulus, desktop VM, I use this script:

$ more bin/regulus
#!/bin/bash
GO=regulus
if [[ $HOSTNAME == "hadar" ]] ; then
     # For local connection on hadar
     /usr/bin/virt-viewer -a -d  $GO &
else
     # For remote connections on the LAN
     /usr/bin/virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://hadar/system $GO &
fi

The local connection doesn't seem any faster than the connection
over the LAN. The connection shows they expected login screen.

Video works as expected over the LAN. The rest of the interface
seems very snappy - faster than expected. I'm still surprised at
how fast it is.

My attempts yesterday to get xspice working on :3 ended badly. I
didn't have to reboot, but it was close. My normal X/Session was
unavailable. Had to remote in and kill it.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice#Xspice
I haven't tried those steps yet. XDMCP through a tunneled SPICE
connection would be nice. Other priorities today.

On 10/8/20 3:57 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> I've used spice over WAN/internet (through 2 VPNs) to a vm from my laptop in an ALE meeting and youtube videos played with synched sound.
> 
> It should be possible by running the server on the far end and connecting the client. That said, it expects to open a high port on request of use that the client needs. May require some scripting to make useable.
> 
> On October 8, 2020 2:51:46 PM EDT, Bob via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>     This blog states that spice only works with a vm on a lan.
> 
>     https://blog.vpscheap.net/x2go-vs-novnc-vs-spice-what-is-the-best-software-for-remote-desktop-connection-rdp/
> 
>     Similarly,
> 
>     https://www.spice-space.org/
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2020-10-08 2:40 p.m., DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> 
>         Does anyone use SPICE for remote desktops without using KVM?
> 
>         I have a physical machine I'd like to remote into, so it wouldn't
>         have KVM+Spice available on it.
> 
>         I've been using x2go, but spice feels even faster than x2go,
>         which is pretty amazing.  As much faster as x2go is than VNC
>         or RDP, Spice is that much faster than x2go over the LAN. I
>         actually wonder if spice isn't accessing some high-end GPU
>         it is so snappy.
> 
>         Found an old article from 2011 of doing this, but nothing
>         later.
>