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

[javaon]

Thanks for replying, Alon.

Yes, I found that 3d rendering in software. But.. is there any method to improve the response speed of Fedora GNOME desktop? You know, Windows XP/7 guest's speed is really pretty fast!

Thanks.

On 01/24/2013 09:13 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
>> 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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