SPICE for Proxmox VE (pvetest)

Raymond Burns said:
So, as of right now, there is no way to boot into a Spice Windows VDI?
Is there a way to boot into a minimal Linux, autostart FireFox into VDI (password parsed)?
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I have sent a small bash script to this thread to get the ticket and connect remote-viewer to the vdi. (no browser is needed).
 
Hi,

i made the pvetest update/upgrade but can't find the splice-seetings (as shown in the wiki). What did i wrong?

Thanks!
 
spirit said:
try to clear your browser cache?

can you choose qxl/spice as video card ?
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already done.

No, i can't choose this video card.

My Proxmox Version shown on the webGUI: 3.0-23/957f0862

Ok, i looked at the install-log: "The following packages have been kept back"..."proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager pve-qemu-kvm"

whats wrong there?

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I did it with aptitude... now it works fine!
 
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spirit said:
Try to install in your vm "apt-get install spice-vdagent"

Also I'm not sure, but maybe Unity can have a performance impact. (or compositing in general). Do you try with another desktop to compare ? (xfce ?).
I known that a kms driver is available since kernel 3.10, and a mesa gallium driver should come soon, maybe it'll improve 3d performance and maybe compositing too ?
I don't have tested spice under linux yet, but on windows guest it's very fast. (video too).
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Thank you Spirit for your suggestion! I installed the spice-vdagent in Ubuntu VM and that seem to improve performance although not significantly but better. Then i tried XFCE desktop manager and my Ubuntu really seem to come to life with speed. :) Way faster than Ubuntu default Compiz. Even youtube video runs like it is running on local desktop. Although there is a little buffer issue. It waits for the buffer more than usual few seconds then plays the entire buffer then buffers again. This might be due to the fact that i am logging into Ubuntu remotely through spice which is hosted in a remote Proxmox cluster where all the VMs are hosted on CEPH storage cluster.

But overall though, the performance is acceptable i should say.
 
sorry to pick this topic up but I want to know what role a user needs to trigger Spice sessions by script without Proxmox webinterface? I have a bad feeling about providing root Username and Pass in the script and want to create a special User for that with lowest possible privileges. For any help I am very grateful.
 
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