[Spice-devel] Performance expectations

[Yonit Halperin]

On 02/21/2012 07:49 PM, Kai Meyer wrote:
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> On 02/20/2012 05:19 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On 02/15/2012 06:22 PM, Kai Meyer wrote:
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>>>
>>> On 02/15/2012 05:19 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>>>> On 02/15/2012 01:16 AM, Kai Meyer wrote:
>>>>> Help me set my expectations straight. Should I be able to use spice
>>>>> from
>>>>> inside a VM on my local machine to view video streaming services like
>>>>> Youtube, Hulu, and Netflix? I have RHEL 6 Workstation for my host, and
>>>>> Win7 Pro as my guest. I've installed the qxl driver in the VM, and
>>>>> used
>>>>> Virt-manager to configure the VM to use Spice as my Display and Video
>>>>> Model is qxl.
>>>>>
>>>> You should be able to do it. But it depends on you network conditions
>>>> (client to host).
>>>>
>>>> Yonit.
>>>>> -Kai Meyer
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>>>>
>>>
>>> This is a VM on my local machine, so I'm effectively connecting to
>>> localhost. Network conditions should be the least concern, yet playback
>>> is terrible.
>>>
>> Which spice client do you run?
>> Another possible reason for the slow playback is that Rhel 6 doesn't
>> have libjpeg-turbo.
>>
>> Yonit.
>>> -Kai Meyer
>>
>
> I'm using the spice client that comes in the default RHEL 6
> repositories. libjpeg-turbo is not installed as a system library
> anywhere I can find. If I am cpu-bound, it seems like it would be the
> qemu process running the VM. My spicec process does not utilize more
> than 50% of a cpu (as reported by top).
Can you please send the qemu log file (/var/log/libvirt/qemu/<vm_name>)?

Thanks,
Yonit.