Hi Marc
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Marc Jones marcj303@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Leandro Dorileo ldorileo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys!
I saw coreboot was accepted as mentoring organization for GSoC this year once again. I want to participate this year again as student and I came with the idea of a Coreboot Spice Payload. I wrote a small text[1] describing the idea.
I would like to hear from you what you think. I have discussed with some guys already but would like to open it a bit more.
[1] - http://vps.dorilex.net/~dorileo/coreboot-spice-payload.txt
Thanks....
-- Leandro Dorileo
Hi Leandro,
Yes, coreboot is accepting student applications for GSoC again this year. Your idea looks very interesting. I think that expanding the payload offerings for coreboot and developing with libpayload would make a good project. Have you thought about what kind of hardware you would develop on?
All I need is something with a ethernet, video, serial and keyboard devices - no special requirements on that. I own a coreboot supported mainboard - the one I used in 2009. But I`m considering to buy an allix.* + flexyice - I haven`t decided yet, can you suggest anything?
Who uses Spice today?
Spice is mainly supported by RedHat, it was developed by Qumranet who used originally supported spice on their desktop virtualization product named SolidIce. Now RedHat has implemented spice on open source products like qemu to support server side and their enterprise desktop clients.
What type of systems or users would take advantage of a Spice Payload?
Once we`re talking about remote desktop virtualization anyone who wants do shrink the expenses with hardware and hardware upgrades on desktops. The real operating system runs in the server which off loads the heavy CPU tasks, you can have a small and cheap piece of hardware capable of running any modern and powerful desktop operating system.