A long time back OpenStack had a remote text console service, in parallel with its VNC console console. This was later deleted because it was using insecure code from an unmaintained 3rd party project. Fairly frequently though people raise the issue of re-enabling remote text (ie serial) console access, as a low bandwidth alternative to a fully graphical console. I was wondering, given that SPICE is designed with many independant data channels, would it make sense to provide a way to add new channel type that could transport a text mode console ? eg SPICE would act as the backend for QEMU serial ports, as well as the graphical display. Clients could have a choice of opening the graphics related channels, the serial port channels, or both. NB I'm not saying I've time to work on this at all - I was just wondering if this was conceptually a reasonable feature to propose. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel