[Spice-devel] Performance expectations

[Kai Meyer]

On 02/21/2012 12:34 PM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
> On 02/21/2012 07:49 PM, Kai Meyer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/20/2012 05:19 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> On 02/15/2012 06:22 PM, Kai Meyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>
Ya, here's a pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/EaHRcYaG