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LOOKING-GLASS-CLIENT(1) General Commands Manual LOOKING-GLASS-CLIENT(1)

NAME

looking-glass-client - Low latency KVM FrameRelay implementation

SYNOPSIS

looking-glass-client [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

LookingGlass enables you to use shared memory to pass rendered frames from a virtual machine back to the host system.

A LookingGlass Host implementation is required to run on the guest virtual machine. It is recommended that the client and host versions match.

OPTIONS

-h
Print out this help
-C PATH
Specify an additional configuration file to load
-f PATH
Specify the path to the shared memory file [default: /dev/shm/looking-glass]
-L SIZE
Specify the size in MB of the shared memory file (0 = detect) [default: 0]
-s
Disable spice client
-c HOST
Specify the spice host or UNIX socket [default: 127.0.0.1]
-p PORT
Specify the spice port or 0 for UNIX socket [default: 5900]
-j
Disable cursor position scaling
-M
Don't hide the host cursor
-K
Set the FPS limit [default: 200]
-k
Enable FPS display
-g NAME
Force the use of a specific renderer
-o OPTION
Specify a renderer option (ie: opengl:vsync=0)

Alternatively specify "list" to list all renderers and their options

-a
Auto resize the window to the guest
-n
Don't allow the window to be manually resized
-r
Don't maintain the aspect ratio
-d
Borderless mode
-F
Borderless fullscreen mode
-x XPOS
Initial window X position [default: center]
-y YPOS
Initial window Y position [default: center]
-w WIDTH
Initial window width [default: 1024]
-b HEIGHT
Initial window height [default: 768]
-Q
Ignore requests to quit (ie: Alt+F4)
-l
License information

AUTHOR

looking-glass-client is written by Geoffrey McRae (https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/)

This manual page was written by Lennart Weller <lhw@ring0.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

June 4, 2018