Hans de Goede: Spice, Open Remote Computing

Red Hat

Abstract

This presentation will cover two subjects: an introduction to "Spice", and the redirection of USB devices towards a virtual machine.

The Spice project aims to provide a complete Open Source solution for interaction with virtualized desktop services. What is Spice? How does it work? Comparison to other techniques to access a remote virtual machine, like VNC. Future features.

USB redirection is using USB devices attached to a real machine inside a virtual machine (guest). The focus of the second part of the presentation will be the special case where the USB device being redirected is not attached to the physical machine hosting the virtual machine, but to some other machine. The talk will present and discuss the ongoing work to create an FOSS solution for this, getting this merged into upstream qemu, as well as integrating this into Spice and the Spice-client.

The audience is expected to be familiar with generic virtualization concepts, but no deep technical knowledge is required.

Biography

Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working on a wide variety of projects, including maintaining 200 packages in Fedora, various hwmon kernel drivers, rewriting and merging many webcam drivers into the mainline kernel, and libv4l --a userspace library to transparently handle the decompression of many proprietary webcam video formats in userspace.

Since 2008, Hans works for Red Hat but also continued the FOSS work he did before. At Red Hat, he has worked on Anaconda (the Fedora / Red Hat installer) and parted (the partition tool). He currently works on Spice and usb-redirection under qemu.