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Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 10:18 Haydn Solomon

Most of the documentation I’ve written so far regarding running and testing SPICE have been doing so on Fedora. This is no surprise as SPICE is maintained by Red Hat and so is rpm based. Well this morning some guys from COSI ( Clarkson Open Source Institute ) sent out a URL to the SPICE development mailing list with a wiki they put together for installing it on Ubuntu. According to the message, SPICE performance is “impressive” on Ubuntu. Below is the URL to the wiki.

http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/SPICE

Comments

Thanks for this link!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 20:52 Anonymous (not verified)

I'm looking forward to trying out SPICE on Ubuntu. This link is a great addition.

Keep up the good work!

I want to ask, if my guest

Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 23:09 Anonymous (not verified)

I want to ask, if my guest and host on the same machine.
is it SPICE not for me?

Or still can speed up something with SPICE,
even both host and guest on the same machine?

Thank you.

Re: I want to ask

Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 00:36 Haydn Solomon

Yep, you should see a difference even if guest and host is same machine.

has anyone gotten the Clarkson info to bld successfully

Monday, June 14, 2010 - 21:53 brian (not verified)

On Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid x64 system

Trying to build the server side I get as far as:

> # install qcairo
> wget http://www.spice-space.org/download/qcairo-1.8.7.1-git74d6b5.tar.bz2
> tar xf qcairo-1.8.7.1-git74d6b5.tar.bz2
> cd qcairo-1.8.7.1-git74d6b5/
> ./autogen.sh --disable-xlib --disable-ps --disable-pdf --disable-svg > --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64

and the autogen fails with the following error:

> checking for pixman... no
> no
> checking whether cairo's image surface backend feature could be enabled... no > (requires qpixman-1 >= 0.12.0 http://cairographics.org/releases/)
> configure: error: mandatory image surface backend feature could not be enabled

If anyone has encountered this and how to fix it let me know.

thx

I ran sudo apt-get install

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 20:40 Anonymous (not verified)

I ran

sudo apt-get install libpixman-1-dev

then re-ran the make and it built. I've been able to run WinXP under lucid (SPICE 0.4.0 with the Windows binary drivers), but haven't been able to get the qxl driver working under X11 on a lucid-i386 vm.

qcairo

Monday, July 26, 2010 - 23:59 Gabriel (not verified)

try with this

$ pwd
/usr/lib/pkgconfig
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/qpixman-1.pc qpixman-1.pc

worked for me.