[Spice-devel] Fedora 18 guest's GUI is slow. Due to 3D driver?

[Alon Levy]

> hi list,
> 
> I am running Fedora 18 (GNOME version) as a guest in a host with qemu
> 1.3. But the desktop is slow. I have already opened 3D acceleration
> in the guest's xml definition file.But the desktop is slow. I have
> already opened 3D acceleration in the guest's xml definition file.
> 
> By the way, Fedora's XFCE version works smoothly.
> 
> Does anyone know what the root cause is? Is it caused by spice/qxl 3D
> driver?

The 3d rendering is done in the guest entirely, in software, you can verify by seeing there is no /dev/drm device being open, and looking at X log file should show it is using software emulation. Looking at the cpu usage in the guest it should be high as well.

> 
> Thanks,
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