Winmin Viewer is an application that uses the SPICE protocol to display applications from libvirt virtual machines.
- libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev
- libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- meson
Build and install with:
$ meson build
$ ninja -C build install
- spice-client-gtk
In order for this program to access the spice socket of the guest VM, the user must be part of the kvm group. This can be added using the following command.
$ sudo usermod -aG $USER kvm
You may need to logout or reboot in order for group changes to take effect.
winmin-viewer name spice_socket
winmin-viewer "Word" spice+unix:///var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-winmin-msoffice/spice.sock
- Format commandline arguments better see: Parsing command-line arguments in C?
- Add fullscreen option
- Add direct binding to libvirt virtual machines using the libvirt API
- Add USB passthrough options