On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:01:16AM -0500, i iordanov wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Would the spiceterm project from Proxmox be of interest? > > https://git.proxmox.com/?p=spiceterm.git;a=blob_plain;f=spiceterm.pod;hb=master That is running a shell server side and then rendering it into a graphical display which is then transported over SPICE as a bitmap. That is a rather inefficient way of sending a plain text data stream, and the client can't turn this bitmap back into plain text for display on a local text terminal. For this to be of value we want to be transporting plain text end-to-end in both directions. > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > 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. 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