[Spice-devel] SPICE Fedora 15 guest X running at 100%

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>
> To: "Alon Levy" <alevy at redhat.com>
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:54:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] SPICE Fedora 15 guest X running at 100%
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 01:41 +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:58:21PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:08 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > <snip>>
> > > I checked my Xorg.0.log file and noticed that I was getting
> > > persistent
> > > messages about cache failures and out of memory. It looks like the
> > > vram
> > > parameter was set to something like 9216.
> > >
> > > So I changed it to 256000. To my surprise, the SPICE client
> > > connected
> > > but I had no mouse and no keyboard. I stopped the VM and redefined
> > > it
> > > with 128000 and I now had keyboard and video but still had the
> > > same
> > > excessive X utilization - John
> >
> > hmm.. yes, this is a well known problem - I thought libvirt fixed
> > it. What
> > version of libvirt are you using? The default memory is 64MB btw.
> 
> 0.8.8-4.fc15 Thanks - John

Try newer libvirt. Changing attribute vram in element model (i.e. <model type='qxl' vram='65536' heads='1'/>) seems to have no impact on qemu instance when I use 0.8.8-4 libvirt. When I use libvirt-0.9.2-1 I can see that option -global qxl-vga.vram_size is passed to qemu.

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