Install experimental spice packages on Fedora
=============================================

Drop spice-unstable.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d and
yum install spice-client qemu-spice

Note #1: The qemu binary of the qemu-spice package has been renamed
to 'qemu-spice', so it can be installed without conflicting with
the fedora qemu packages.

Note #2: You might have to remove the *spice*unstable packages to
install the 0.5.2+ release versions (which lost the 'unstable' in the
package name) without conflicts.

Note #3: We are busy moving packages over to rawhide / upcoming F14.


Getting Started with spice
==========================

* Enable spice in qemu:
  qemu -spice port=1234,password=$secret     # password protected
  qemu -spice port=1234,disable-ticketing    # allow connects without password

* Enable qxl vga device (recommended):
  qemu -spice $options -vga qxl

* Enable multihead:
  qemu -spice $options -vga qxl -device qxl

* Enable sound:
  qemu -spice $options -device AC97

* Adding a absolute pointing device aka tablet is strongly recommended:
  qemu -usbdevice tablet

* The usb tablet is the most portable, but due to the polling nature
  of usb not the most efficent way to add a absolute pointing device.
  You may try this instead:
    (1) Install vdagent.rpm inside the guest
    (2) Add '-device virtio-serial -device spicevmc' to the qemu
        command line.  Also drop '-usbdevice tablet'.

* You probably also want things go fast ;)
  qemu -enable-kvm

* Start spice client:
  spicec -h localhost -p 1234 -w $secret

The spice client has two important hot keys: Shift+F11 (toggle
Fullscreen) and Shift+F12 (release pointer grab).  If you add a usb
tablet (or other absolute pointing device) you hopefully never ever
need Shift+F12 though.


More info
=========

Note that alot of this referes to spice 0.4.  Quite a few changes went
into the unstable development tree, so take care that informations
there might be outdated or not apply to unstable spice any more.

http://www.spice-space.org/
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/getting-started-spice-fedora-12


enjoy,
  Gerd

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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>