Bug 885881
| Summary: | No systemd service configuration for Xspice | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dean Hunter <deanhunter> |
| Component: | spice | Assignee: | Alon Levy <alevy> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | alevy, alexl, cfergeau, dblechte, hdegoede, jforbes, marcandre.lureau, orion, pedrogfrancisco, sandmann |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2014-02-05 13:46:23 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Dean Hunter
2012-12-10 21:30:16 UTC
Hmm, why would you want to start an X-server as a service, usually it is started by the display manager, ie gdm and that is the service which is managed at the systemd level. I apologize. I do not know any better. I was testing gnome-boxes and saw that it should connect to a remote host server as easily as to a remote guest server. So I wanted to try it. However, I am unable to find much documentation so I am rather stumbling around. I have used ssh -X and Xrdp, which does use a systemd service. Could you direct me to instructions for using Xspice on my Fedora 18 server such that I may connect from Boxes on my Fedora 18 client? gnome-boxes can connect to any spice server, and Xspice is a spice server. Xspice can be run as root or as a user, it takes a number of additional parameters Xorg doesn't, the rest are passed to Xorg. There is a readme in the package: rpm -ql xorg-x11-server-Xspice ... /usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-server-Xspice-0.1.0/README.xspice ... Xspice --disable-ticketing --port 6000 :5.0 and you have an open (no password required) server running on port 6000, unencrypted traffic, using display id 5.0 (so export DISPLAY=:5.0 to use for most X clients). You then connect with gnome-boxes using port 6000. To create a systemd unit would be possible too, I'll look at the Xrdp one. Maybe what Hans said makes sense too - i.e. doing it at the gdm level. Yes, I found the README and followed those instructions, but all I got was a blank screen so I thought I must have missed something. That's expected if you haven't run any X client :) If you expected the old school stipple background then you need to add it to Xspice parameters (-retro), but it is not recommended since it isn't required and it effect performance (qxl is not optimized for it). Just launch a window manager and it should be fine. I guess I expected to see the Gnome desktop as I would with Xrdp. Could you remind me how to launch a window manager? I vaguely remember doing this many years ago when first working with a remote X server. Well, you just convinced me that having the same behaviour with Xspice is a good idea, so I'll look into that. Meahwhile, for launching a gnome session, I can't seem to run another side by side with my existing one (5 minutes ago) <alonl> can I run two gnome-sessions with two separate DISPLAY on the same host with the same user? <mclasen> no But icewm works like this: tty A: Xspice --disable-ticketing --port 8888 :5.0 tty B: remote-viewer spice://localhost:8888 tty C: DISPLAY=:5.0 icewm Thank you for considering the systemd configuration. It will be ever so convenient to have one tool, which I guess is destined to become gnome-boxes, to connect to both host and guest servers and to have it all "just work". Any news? This message is a reminder that Fedora 18 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 18. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '18'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 18 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |