Is anyone using Spice for graphics display with QEMU/KVM or other virtual environments?

When I first saw their web site, I was excited. It looks great! But I've seen NO activity. And all of the bugs in their bugzilla pages are status New (except for one that's Need). That's not a healthy sign.

So I'm just wondering if it was a wonderful Idea that just died, or if the lead developer died or if there's a lot of activity I just don't see. Or what?

it's only just come in to libvirt / qemu recently, working pretty well for me. Both the VNC and Spice graphics angles have their quirks, but I use spice as the default without any issues.

What guest OSes do you run?

I haven't tried recently, and I've only tried a Linux guest, but I haven't been able to run KVM and make it stable with VPN or Spice. SDL is stable, but I can't log out of the host and let it run, which is what I want to do.

Maybe there have been updates and fixes in the months since I've tried it, so I should try again. The inconvenience is that VirtualBox won't let me start up my only Windows machine (virtual) if the KVM drivers are installed, so I can't experiment with KVM if I have to use Windows (in VirtualBox) for any reason.

It's been my goal to switch to KVM instead of VirtualBox altogether, but I'm not there yet.

Win7 and Mint guests on Fedora 16 host currently

Spice is very much alive, integrated in Fedora 14 and upwards, RHEL6 (and RHEL5 under RHEV too). It is also present in the recently relaunched oVirt project, and pretty much any OSS virtualization project nowadays uses Spice