1. Boxes: More Spice Features

1.1. Short Description

GNOME Boxes is an application used to access virtual and remote systems, which targets typical desktop users. This proposal is about successfully fixing/implementing the list of bugs/features related to remote accessing virtual machines through SPICE.

The project will involve implementing important features, like shared folders, sharing wifi-geolocation, allowing SPICE connections to be discoverable on the network and using SSH to connect to a SPICE display.

1.2. About Me

My name is Visarion-Mingopol Alexandru-Viorel and I am a third year Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate student at the Politechnica University of Bucharest.

Contact :

IRC (Gimpnet / Freenode) : visarion
Email : viorel.visarion AT gmail DOT com

I will keep a journal regarding my progress on my blog.

1.3. Schedule

x - 23 May	Include spice-gtk option group in --help menu. Stop VM from erroneously thinking it has a touchscreen.
23 May - 5 June	Notify the guest machine that it doesn’t have the spice agent installed. Make the USB redirection available when VM in background.
6 June - 27 June	Create a visually better way of sending files to SPICE guests. Implement multiple shared folders for SPICE displays.
27 June - 9 July	Allow SPICE connections to be discoverable on the network.
9 July - 23 July	Make the wifi-geolocation work inside VMs. Fix the issue when powering off a SPICE remote machine in a separate window.
23 July - 12 August	Use SSH to connect to the SPICE display of remote libvirt boxes. Work on anything else that isn't finished yet.
16 Aug - 23 Aug	Test the new features. Fix any new SPICE related bug.