Alternatives to SPICE
An open source remote display system and guest tools for interacting with virtual machines. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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SPICE
An open source remote display system and guest tools for interacting with virtual machines.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SPICE.
Looking Glass
A low-latency viewer that shows a GPU-passthrough Windows virtual machine inside a Linux window.
Looking Glass gives low-latency display of a Windows GPU-passthrough VM on a Linux host, but requires a working GPU passthrough setup and a Windows guest.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
virt-viewer
A console viewer for connecting to the graphical displays of virtual machines over SPICE and VNC.
Virtual Machine Manager
The standard desktop front end for KVM on Linux, plus the command line tools that go with it.
QEMU
The machine emulator and virtualiser that most of the Linux virtualisation stack is built on.
GNOME Boxes
A simple GNOME desktop app for creating and running virtual machines on Linux.
libvirt
A toolkit, daemon and API for managing KVM, QEMU, Xen, LXC and other virtualization platforms.
