Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/11] display: add -display spice-app launching a Spice client

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:07:03PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Add a new display backend that will configure Spice to allow a remote
> client to control QEMU in a similar fashion as other QEMU display
> backend/UI like GTK.
> 
> For this to work, it will set up Spice server with a unix socket, and
> register a VC chardev that will be exposed as Spice ports. A QMP
> monitor is also exposed as a Spice port, this allows the remote client
> fuller qemu control and state handling.
> 
> - doesn't handle VC set_echo() - this doesn't seem a strong
>   requirement, very few front-end use it
> - spice options can be tweaked with other -spice arguments
> - Windows support shouldn't be hard to do, but will probably use a TCP
>   port instead
> - we may want to watch the child process to quit automatically if it
>   crashed

Hmm, not working on RHEL-7:

  qemu-system-x86_64: Failed to launch spice+unix:///tmp/.QON7WZ/spice.sock 
URI: The specified location is not supported

virt-viewer + remote-viewer are installed.

any clue?

thanks,
  Gerd