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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:47:43 -0700
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On 10/14/2011 10:21 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>   I tried googl'ing how to run spice as a viewer for a KVM guest.
>> I only got confused.  Can someone tell me how to do this?
> I tried spice while I was testing SL 6.1 a few months back. This is a
> 'quick and dirty' way of setting it up:
>
> yum install spice-server, spice-client, and libguestfs-tools on the
> kvm host. They should pull other required packages.
>
> In virt-manager, edit a guest config:
>
> - add "Display SPICE"
> - remove "Display VNC"
> - change the video mode to "qxl"
>
> If no GUI, you can edit these by 'virsh edit<guest>' as well.
>
> Start the guest.
>
> Connect to it with a 'spicec -h localhost -p<port>'.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Akemi
>
Hi Akemi,

    Worked perfectly.  Thank you!

-T

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