socket: 0.852 network: 0.731 semantic: 0.613 device: 0.613 arm: 0.573 ppc: 0.555 graphic: 0.485 register: 0.477 permissions: 0.427 risc-v: 0.406 i386: 0.400 mistranslation: 0.394 boot: 0.372 PID: 0.359 architecture: 0.336 TCG: 0.324 x86: 0.298 kernel: 0.287 vnc: 0.284 performance: 0.257 files: 0.248 peripherals: 0.192 hypervisor: 0.166 virtual: 0.164 user-level: 0.127 VMM: 0.124 KVM: 0.095 debug: 0.064 assembly: 0.055 RFE: Support spice via unix domain socket According to the man page, spice can be only used via TCP/IP in opposite to VNC, which can also be configured to listen on a unix domain socket. To make it easy to use spice without exposing the interface, please support unix domain sockets as well. I can try to provide a patch, if you can point me to the source code where TCP/IP socket is opened. There is already support for that in spice-server afaik, though I don't remember the api or what commit, or if it's in a released version (well, it's surely in 0.11.0, but that's unstable). Sorry about the lack of details, I suggest you search spice-devel mailing list archive though. I think libvirt can already use it, but perhaps you want a commandline option, that may be missing. Alon you could pass sockets via QMP a while ago, but listening to unix socket has been added there: commit fe4831b1e7e7007ae15ae0470a06898660ab3877 Author: Marc-André Lureau