Fedora :: Start Using SPICE As An Alternative To NX?
Apr 13, 2011
SPICE has been getting there for a while now and seems to be a very capable mechanism for running remote desktops. (You see where I'm going?) Virtual desktops have a good chance of becoming all the rage if SPICE gets a low enough latency implementation. But what about applying that low latency implementation to running over a physical layer? Who says the host machine has to be a virtual box? (See where I'm going now?) Does anyone know if I can start using SPICE as an alternative to NX for example?
Has someone using opensource SPICE [URL] wit WIN7 Prof. desktop across the low 2 Mbps WAN with 50ms latency? BTW we're using VMware View 4.6 Desktop with WIN7 Prof. (PCoIP) and have a lot performance problems across the WAN.
I have a pretty powerful desktop running fedora and was wondering if I could use the new SPICE VDI technology to create a dummy terminal virtual desktop using just a 2nd monitor, keyboard, and mouse (no thin client). Is this possible using USB ports? Would I need a 2nd video card for the monitor?
I'm using vnc to connect to my ubuntu box from my windows box however I don't like the way it works.1) It doesn't start automatically. I have to be logged into my username before I can connect to my box.2) It takes control of the screen on my ubuntu box which isn't what I really want to happen. I'm used to connecting via rdp in windows where I connect to the other computer and if you looked at the other screen you wouldn't even know I am logged on.This is handy if someone else is using the pc plus I just don't like everything that I am doing to appear on a computer screen that I can't see. I find it kind of freaky.
Installing spice is my first attempt at compiling anything from source and it has been an incredible headache so far. After going round and round for 3 hours chasing missing dependencies I'm finally stuck at a place where I don't know how to proceed. According to the instructions I'm following: "In case of an older kernel (version < 2.6.30)Get kernel sources using the following git repository:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git cd <spice_root>/vdesktop/kernel ./configure ln -s <linux-2.6.30 source dir> linux-2.6 make sync make "
Unfortunately my CentOS box (the one I'm working on) doesn't have internet capability, so I have to download everything on my windows box and burn it to cd. So I downloaded the 2.6.30 source from kernel.org, copied it to my CentOS box and unpacked it. I got as far as "make sync" in those instructions before I hit the next snag. When I tried to "make" it gave me an error "/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/build no such file or directory"When I look for the referenced "build" file, it says link broken and when I follow the link to "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64" which does in fact not exist.
So a quick google search reveals I need the source for my current kernel in addition to the 2.6.30 kernel source. The instructions here:
[URL] for the full kernel source look hugely complicated and involve rpms which is something I know nothing about. I tried to yum install kernel-devel hoping that would appease the unhappy make build, but I'm limited to installing things on the CentOS install DVD and yum tells me "error downloading packages" from the DVD repo, so I guess the source files are not the DVD? To top it all off, I only have 30 Mb of free space left on this drive anyhow, so I don't think there is room download the whole source anyway unless I put it on cd and mount it or link to it somehow in ways that make my tired brain hurt.
Spice server/client configuration. I used remote viewer on debian jessie to connect to a guest virtual machine on kvm and everything works fine. It used a spice server / client and qxl. After I upgraded to debian stretch, I suddenly face issues with black bars in the remote client window. Those black bars appear only on the left and right side of the remote viewer window. Also in full screen mode the black bars sadly appear. Maybe the scaling mode is somehow disabled or my screen resolution of the host was wrong calculated related to that i can change the guest screen resolution but the spice remote client keeps its window size with the black bars. I was trying the last couple of days to resolve this issue, unfortunately without success.
I asking for an alternative to nautilus. The problem I have with nautilus is that it take up too much screen real estate, the icons are too big, etc. My screen is 1280 x 1024 and I dont plan on going higher.
Any alternative should have the option of using small, smaller icons and when resized keeps the smaller size the next time the file browser window is opened.
(I also have a win XP pro installation on my machine - but no dual-boot)
I would very much like to be able to transfer music to my iPhone, from my linux-fedora, which the iPod device on the iPhone is able to see...
I have successfully transferred several "libgpod-something.mp3" files to my iPhone, but I can't play them on my iPhone.
I have tried the following software:
Rhythmbox (came with Fedora 14), here i am able to see the content of my iPhone, and transfer libgpod files. But I cannot see any music folder under the iPhone icon. So I just drag and drop .mp3 files to iPhone. iPhone can't see them.
Banshee (newest available version installed with add/remove programs), here I'm also able to see the content of the iPhone, and I can see a music folder icon under the iPhone icon, but I can't drag and drop to the music folder, but I can drag and drop to the iPhone icon, and the files gets transferred, but again iPhone can't see them. But I can play the transferred files from Banshee...
Gtkpod (newest available version installed with add/remove programs), is largely the same as Rhythmbox, but i get a warning that says: Extended info will not be used, when the iPhone is mounted. There is no music folder icon, but only a poscast icon, under the iPhone icon. And again, I'm able to transfer files to the iPhone, that my iPhone can't see...
In Gtkpod, there is no option for the white iPhone 4, so I've used the "xC605" profile, which is for the black iPhone 4, 32GB.
I'm also able to see content of my iPhone with nautilus. I discovered that the linux software I'm using, are converting the .mp3 files into "libgpod" files, but iTunes(transferred with WinXP) is converting the .mp3 files into "XXXX.mp3" files (X= is for random letters).
Is this significant?
I've also just updated libimobiledevice with "libimobiledevice-1.0.6-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm", but my iPhone still can't see any of the linux transferred files. Only the iTunes transferred files.
Believe me I've tried and tried for a week now. I've searched a lot, but most of the hits in my search, were for Ubuntu...
My iPhone is not jailbroken.
Am I missing something here, is my iPhone 4 supposed to be jailbroken to work with the above mentioned software?
I'm getting really fed up of all the bugs on Ubuntu and Fedora. Currently I manage 20-25 Optiplex 755 computers on my company. I tried Ubuntu and while it was great because of the repositories, the machines do not shutdown properly. Suspend is also a hit and miss. Well, I'm totally fed up of this. On the server side I use mostly CentOS and I am extremelly happy (except for the lack of VMI) with it.
Do you think CentOS will be a good alternative for my desktops? Is it comparable to Redhat Enterprise Desktop?
I am installing the quake4SDK on RHEL , it needs gcc-3.3 , but I have gcc 4.1.How can I install an alternative gcc3.3, without getting rid of the newest one , and solely to get this program to compile ??? I know there is an "alternative" managing system , but don't know how it works.
Two general questions about Fedora 15 before I decide to install. My system typically starts in about 32 seconds, with a distro using normal boot scripts. With Ubuntu and upstart it reaches the gdm login screen quicker in around 18 - 24 seconds. With systemd does anyone get a noticeable difference?
Also, is it possible to use an alternative desktop to gnome3 in Fedora 15. I've tried Gnome3 with Arch and its very slick although not for me, as I like panels and desktop applets. (I should add that my times quoted were mesaured using bootchart with a default set of services, no tweaking).
I'm trying to find how to schedule a process to start at a specific time (not on start up). How would I schedule a process/application to start at a specific time (if it matters, it will be a background process). For instance, have process abc start every weekday at 5am. I've done this for windows many times though have only been using linux regularly for a few months and haven't figured out the best way of doing this.
So far the best solution I have is to create a program that will start on boot and have it check the time and sleep until the required time and then start the required process(es) at the required time(s). But this seems more of a hack since I'd expect there to be a proper way of doing this.
I want to monitor my work on the terminal.I know we can use script command.But every time when I start the terminal, I have to type script to start it.I want to automate it. So where should I include this command so that it will start as soon as I start the terminal ?
MY WORK TILL NOW: I have put this "script" command in the .profile.The when I start the terminal, it became an INFINITE LOOP.I am able to "echo".Thats coming only once.....but if I write a "script" command then it is becoming an INFINITE LOOP.
I just installed TuxGuitar - very cool - and to get the sound to work I had to install Timidity++ as well. Before I start TuxGuitar I have to execute:timidity -iA -Osin a terminal window first, which is kind of a pain to do every time I run TuxGuitar.How do I get this line to execute on startup such that timidity is running when I start up? I tried adding that line to rc.local
I used to use Gwibber as social networks aggregator/client, but starting since last update (current version 3.1.0) it crashes miserably on both Fedora 14 and Fedora 15.
Gwibber team looks reluctant to provide any feedback on whether this shall be fixed in foreseeable future. Installing Gwibber from the last stable sources gives the same crash.
when i start the computer i will have 3 seconds to choose windows xp or else it will go on linux but someone told me that by changing the grub.cfg when i start my computer i will have 3 seconds to start linux or else it will be xp is this true ? and if it is can someone explain me how to do it because i would like that
I'm an undergraduate Physics student, and I would like to install a software for helping me with relatively simple tasks, such as calculating integrals, plotting graphs and performing some general numerical calculations. Can someone indicate me a good software for these purposes, preferably an official Debian package?
I have used TurboTax online for several years to do my return....this year they are refusing Firefox running on a Linux OS!Anyone know of an alternative that is Linux friendly?
i've been searching for GTD app alternative to OmniFocus but till now i couldn't find any REAL apps that's use the real methodology of GTD don't answer me with one of those apps 'cause i've tried them and they are either ugly or poor or both
I use dual monitors and it's extremely important to me to arrange them and keep 'em reliable. So I have been looking for an alternative for DisplayFusion on ubuntu since 1 year but I couldn't find any good result, if you know any sort of good drivers or programs to arrange the desktop and scale backgrounds perfectly.
Been playing around with the new Ubuntu 11.4 and really don't like it. The previous versions were much better. How long will Ubuntu 10.10 be supported and what would be a good alternative to eventually switch to?
just wondering if there is an alternative to Ssreenlets available? Love the program, but on 11.04 a lot of the Screenlets just don't work yet. Yes, I am aware that this may also happen on an alternative, but was just wondering, if anyone knows?
I'm fairly new to the Ubuntu community, having dl'ed Ubuntu 11.04 little more than a couple of weeks ago, deleting my Windows completely. I'm sure this has been said before, but I'm trying to find a good VoIP I can use to call my Windows using girlfriend who is currently very far away. Skype for Linux just crashes for me after a minute or two, Ekiga only allows me to make a call to any contact ONCE, then I can never do it again, tried Faceflow and couldn't even see or hear her. I'm running out of options, it seems. Will I really have to go back to windows just to see her?
