[Spice-devel] RFC: Integrating Virgil and Spice

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

Nice summary.

> 3) Virgil will render using the host gpu, using EGL to talk to
> a drm render node. For non local displays the rendered contents
> will be read back from the gpu and then passed as a pixmap to the
> ui to transport over the network

Interesting in this context:  What is the status of 3d support for
qxl/spice?  Is it be possible to transform virgil 3d ops into spice 3d
ops, so you could offload the rendering to spice-client?  Does it make
sense to try?  Or would the transfer of the data needed to render more
expensive than transferring the rendered screen?

cheers,
  Gerd