Daniel P. Berrangé commented on issue #170 at Virt Viewer / virt-viewer

Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-16T09:09:34Z

The project is called 'virt-viewer', and it provides two binaries 'virt-viewer' and 'remote-viewer'. They both provide VNC and SPICE, the only difference between them is how the connection is determined. With 'virt-viewer' it talks to libvirt to auto-discover the VNC/SPICE URL, with 'remote-viewer' the user must provide the URL manually.

The Windows MSI installer provides both virt-viewer.exe and remote-viewer.exe, but there's only a menu entry for remote-viewer.exe, as we've historically lacked a small piece of UI so virt-viewer.exe needs to be started from the command prompt to give the libvirt connection details.