Laptop (fedora 18)
Server (fedora 18) ...running a windows7 guest.
*All qemu, libvirt and spice packages were Fedora defaults....as in what you find in the standard repo.
I took my laptop to my brothers house (5 miles away) and used "spicec" to connect to my windows7 guest...."shift+F11" to full screen and launched a 720p HD movie via VLC (running in the windows guest)...... if you've not seen it before it'll take your breath away :))))) ....it's not 100% perfect....but it's at least 98% perfect.
...yes we both have virgin media broadband (UK) .... BUT ping response times are in the 20ms
After that test, I've been working day and night designing a spice thin client (hardware) because it's obvious that the way the "majority" of people use a PC's is about to change.
Bruce
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Marian Krcmarik <mkrcmari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The goal is the same but concept how to achieve it is (afaik) completely different. PCoIP is a UDP stream of rendered pixels on host (with some support to offload image encoding to special hardware cards) while Spice is a TCP stream of graphics commands to be rendered on the client.
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> From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:35:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Spice for commercial use
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> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 01:10 -0800,
> spice-devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:24:34 -0800
> > From: Tom Holmes <tomholmes@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Spice for commercial use
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> >
> > Hello!
> > Can Spice be used for commercial use, if so are there licensing
> > fees
> > that are applied? Would you say Spice is comparable to RDP, ICA
> > and
> > PCOIP? Can Spice be used to access a Windows Desktop?
> > Thank you so much!Tom
> >
> I have not used PCoIP but, from what I understand, SPICE would be
> most
> similar to that. Fundamentally, all four are providing the same
> primary
> functionality - remote desktops. In my experience, RDP and ICA are a
> little more responsive over a WAN/Internet connection right now but
> do
> not handle multimedia as well as SPICE. I mean RDP6 and above - RDP5
> was terrible over a WAN. I believe, as video becomes more important
> and
> as SPICE improves its video capability, perhaps with an inter-frame
> compression algorithm instead of MJPEG, it will become our remote
> desktop protocol of choice :) - John
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