SPICE: Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments ============================================================= SPICE is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Installation ------------ The SPICE package uses GNU autotools, so the build install process follows the standard process documented in the INSTALL file. As a quick start you can do ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib make sudo make install Or to install into a private user specific location ./configure --prefix=$HOME/spice make make install The following mandatory dependancies are required in order to build SPICE Spice protocol >= 0.9.0 Pixman >= 0.17.7 OpenSSL libjpeg zlib Cyrus-SASL The following optional dependancies increase the available functionality GE Gui >= 0.6.0, < 0.7.0 (GUI app support) OpenGL (GUI app support) Alsa (Linux support) XRandR >= 1.2 (X11 support) Xinerama >= 1.0 (X11 support) libcacard >= 0.1.2 (Smartcard support) Communication ------------- To communicate with the development team, or to post patches there is a technical mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel There is also a mailing list for new release announcements: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-announce/ To view known bugs, or report new bugs, in SPICE visit https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Spice Bugs found when using an OS distribution's binary packages should be reported to the OS vendors' own bug tracker first. The latest SPICE code can be found in GIT at: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/ Licensing --------- SPICE is provided under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Please see the COPYING file for the complete LGPLv2+ license terms, or visit . Experimental Features --------------------- To enable multiple client connections, set: SPICE_DEBUG_ALLOW_MC=1 -- End of readme