[Spice-devel] Spice Display updates

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 23:41:00 PST 2012


> 
> Hi,
> Technologies like VNC send screen updates primarily to the client to
> reduce bandwidth utilization between client and server. But after
> every few seconds, VNC sends across entire screen data to VNC client
> (I believe to recover from any corruption). Does spice send entire
> screen data to client every few seconds even if client is idle?

No, it doesn't. On connection spice sends the whole screen (and any off screen surfaces), and from then on only rendering commands.

> 
> 
> Thanks
> Baskar
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