On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 13:04 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
But to introduce another protocol where a user has to make a choice to
use Spice over VNC, I think we need a really good justification for
that. It's really about complexity. A user shouldn't have to know
about Spice or VNC. They shouldn't have to contemplate the trade-offs
of whether their management tool is aware or not. It should Just Work.
That's a good goal.
If we add a new protocol, we could achieve the same thing by allowing
qemu support both VNC and Spice at runtime. Then you just need a client
like virt-viewer that can handle both protocols, and old VNC clients
will continue to be able to connect to newer qemu.