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Virt Viewer
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Virt Viewer provides a graphical viewer for the guest OS
display. At this time is supports guest OS using the VNC
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or SPICE protocols. Further protocols may be supported in
the future as user demand dicatates. The viewer can connect
directly to both local and remotely hosted guest OS, optionally
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using SSL/TLS encryption.
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Virt Viewer can be built with either GTK2 or GTK3, with the
default option currently being GTK2. The choice can be made
with:
./configure --with-gtk=3.0 (or =2.0)
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Virt Viewer uses the GTK-VNC (>= 0.4.3) widget to provide a
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display of the VNC protocol, which is available from
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http://gtk-vnc.sourceforge.net/
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Virt Viewer uses the SPICE-GTK (>= 0.12.101) widget to provide a
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display of the SPICE protocol, which is available from:
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http://spice-space.org/page/Spice-Gtk
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Use of either SPICE-GTK or GTK-VNC can be disabled at time
of configure, with --without-gtk-vnc or --without-spice-gtk
respectively.
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Virt Viewer uses libvirt to lookup information about the
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guest OS display. This is available from
http://libvirt.org/
Further information about the Virt Viewer application can be
found on the Virt Manager website:
http://virt-manager.org/
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Feedback should be directed to the mailing list at
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http://virt-manager.org/mailinglist.html
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