[Spice-devel] Delay in Gimp when using qxl driver

Dominique Rodrigues dominique.rodrigues at nanocloud.com
Tue Jan 17 23:22:50 PST 2012


By the way, this problem does not appear in a windows 7 virtual desktop 
powered by a qxl graphic driver.

Only Linux virtual desktops are affected.


        Dominique Rodrigues

nanoClouD <http://www.nanocloud.com>
Le 18/01/2012 08:06, Dominique Rodrigues a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Since I use qxl driver in virtual desktop powered by qemu-kvm, I found 
> a strange problem with Gimp.
>
> After launching Gimp, open a new windows, and then try to draw 
> something. It appears that the drawing is very slow and does not 
> follow the mouse at all.
>
> It is the same if I use spicy, spicec or vnc to connect to my virtual 
> desktop.
>
> This problem does not appear with cirrus or vmware graphic drivers.
>
> I found that on any Linux distribution (CentOS, RHEL, Scientific 
> Linux, Debian, Ubuntu).
>
> I currently use :
> - qemu-kvm 1.0 compiled with spice support
> - spice-protocol 0.10.1
> - spice 0.10
> - spice-gtk 0.7
> - xorg-qxl driver 0.16
>
> Is there any explanation for that ?
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
>
>
>         Dominique Rodrigues
>
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