[Spice-devel] SPICE questions

[Izik Eidus]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:52 +0100
"Stefan Zintgraf" <s.zintgraf at acontis.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> What kind of results? -
> The bandwith that spice take?
> The speed of rendering ? (interactive feeling)
> The cpu it cunsom?
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> as i've written, the problems are speed.
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> It is even slower compared with "-vga std" option of QEMU.
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> Regardless if I run the client on the same machine or on a remote Windows machine, speed is always the same.
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> One point to mention: 
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> if I move the PPT to another slide it takes several seconds until the screen is updated.


I think you are still at vga mode, when you run the spiced qemu, you see alot of message
when you change the resoultion of the guest do you see the following message: 

qxl_exit_vga_mode

on the terminal?


Thanks.

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> After closing the spice client and restarting it again, the screen is built immediately.
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> So it seems that it takes a very long time until the spice server gets updated screen data.
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> Well this for sure not right for any machine that i have saw.
> Do you sure you are using the QXL driver? when you go to:
> Control Panel -> Display -> Settings
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> "The Display: " say Red Hat QXL GPU ?
> The display says "Red Hat QXL GPU"! 
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> (There is a issue with windows that you got to change resoultion after you install the
> driver in order to benefit from it)
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> I changed resolution, nothing changed regarding speed.
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> Thanks
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> Stefan
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> Von: Izik Eidus [mailto:ieidus at redhat.com] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 00:20
> An: Stefan Zintgraf
> Cc: Alexander Larsson; spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Betreff: Re: [Spice-devel] SPICE questions
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> On 03/10/2010 06:37 PM, Stefan Zintgraf wrote: 
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> I got it compiled and running now!
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> I had to insert a lot of casts and do some tricking with the libasound library (had to use the 32 bit one) and finally it compiled and even started.
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> But the results are quite disappointing with a Windows XP virtual machine.
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> What kind of results? -
> The bandwith that spice take?
> The speed of rendering ? (interactive feeling)
> The cpu it cunsom?
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> In my virtual machine the "Red Hat QXL GPU" driver is installed as well the "Red Hat Virtual Desktop Interface Port" driver.
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> Compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop the results are disappointing and even if I run QEMU without the qxl and spice option the results are better.
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> Well this for sure not right for any machine that i have saw.
> Do you sure you are using the QXL driver? when you go to:
> Control Panel -> Display -> Settings
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> "The Display: " say Red Hat QXL GPU ?
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> (There is a issue with windows that you got to change resoultion after you install the
> driver in order to benefit from it)
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> Thanks
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> Has anybody an idea what I am doing wrong, how can I find out what may be the reason?
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> Another point: the spice client seems to be very unstable in specific situations.
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> When I opened MS Powerpoint and went to a specific slide with a lot of graphics it regularly crashed without leaving any message. There was no difference whether I used the self-compiled Linux client or the downloaded Windows binaries. 
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> Especially the speed behavior is important for me to decide if using SPICE is the right way to go and then to possibly contribute where necessary.
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> Thanks for any help.
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> Stefan
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alexander Larsson [mailto:alexl at redhat.com] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 8. März 2010 15:43
> An: Stefan Zintgraf
> Cc: dlaor at redhat.com; spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: [Spice-devel] SPICE questions
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> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 15:34 +0100, Stefan Zintgraf wrote:
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> > Thanks for the answer.
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> > The faq says: I built Spice server on a 32-bit machine and it failed.
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> > I've read the FAQ but was not aware if it is impossible by design to
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> > get everything running on a single 32 Bit Linux.
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> I don't really know the exact requirements, just read this in the faq.
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> Its possible that this is fixable, but currently it does not build on
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