[Spice-devel] Performance expectations

[Yonit Halperin]

On 02/21/2012 09:56 PM, Kai Meyer wrote:
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> On 02/21/2012 12:34 PM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Ya, here's a pastebin:
> http://pastebin.com/EaHRcYaG
>
Thanks,
Can you try the following:
- Use rtl8139 for the Nic model instead of virtio and compare to your 
previous experience?

- You can also try watch locally saved movie instead of using a web service

Yonit.