Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or Higher Virtual Machines to Use SPICE
SPICE is a remote display protocol designed for virtual environments, which enables you to view a virtualized desktop or server. SPICE delivers a high quality user experience, keeps CPU consumption low, and supports high quality video streaming.
Using SPICE on a Linux machine significantly improves the movement of the mouse cursor on the console of the virtual machine. To use SPICE, the X-Windows system requires additional qxl drivers. The qxl drivers are provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and higher. Older versions are not supported. Installing SPICE on a virtual machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux significantly improves the performance of the GUI.