| Internet protocol suite |
|---|
| Application layer |
| Transport layer |
| Internet layer |
| Link layer |
| Original author(s) | Qumranet |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Red Hat |
| Stable release | 0.8.1 |
| Written in | C, C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows |
| Type | Server, client |
| License | GPL, LGPL, BSD |
| Website | spice-space.org |
In computing, SPICE (the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) is a remote-display system built for virtual environments which allows users to view a computing "desktop" environment - not only on its compute-server machine, but also from anywhere on the Internet and using a wide variety of machine architectures.
Qumranet originally developed SPICE. (Red Hat, Inc acquired Qumranet in 2008.)
In December 2009 Red Hat, Inc decided to open-source the protocol.[1][2]
The qspice implementation supports the SPICE protocol in virtual machines based on qemu-kvm.[3]