Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments
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This article is about the remote desktop protocol. For other uses, see Spice (disambiguation).
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 computer-server machine, but also from anywhere on the Internet – using a wide variety of machine architectures.
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Original author(s) | Qumranet |
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Developer(s) | Red Hat |
Stable release | |
Written in | C, C++ |
Operating system | Linux, Windows, Android (Client) |
Type | Server, client |
License | GPL, LGPL and BSD |
Website | spice-space.org |
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Qumranet originally developed SPICE using a closed-source codebase in 2007. Red Hat, Inc acquired Qumranet in 2008, and in December 2009 released the code under an open-source license and made the protocol an open standard.[4][5]