[Spice-devel] Unstable package issues

[Daire Byrne]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> The qemu repo is based on upstream qemu (unlike vdesktop which is based on
> qemu-kvm).  Not all qemu-kvm features have been merged into upstream qemu
> yet, this is still work-in-progress.  One of the missing features is using
> the kernels PIC/IOAPIC/LAPIC emulation instead of doing it in userspace.  I
> think this hits winxp especially hard because it uses the tpr alot.
>
> The performance should be roughly the same as the stock F12 qemu-kvm with
> '-no-kvm-irqchip' passed as additional parameter.

Ah yes I remember something about this before. Unfortunately I guess
this argument hasn't been integrated into upstream qemu yet. I think
I'll try win7 and see if I get better results.

Cheers,

Daire