[Spice-devel] 3D Support

[Victor Toso]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your interest in SPICE!

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 01:46:42PM +0100, Chris Harvey wrote:
> I currently use spice in my home. I have a server in my attic
> which has several virtual machines running on it (Windows &
> Linux). I then have some really low spec laptops and Raspberry
> Pi's which I use as thin clients > to connect to the virtual
> machines through spice.
>
> Pretty weird setup, but it works pretty well with HD video etc.

That's very cool! I'm quite curious about Raspberry Pi as client for
quite some time now, how is the user experience?

>
> The only thing missing is support for 3D, primarily for desktop
> effects such as Aero or gnome shell.
>
> Has there been much progress with 3D support, if so, is there any
> experimental spice build that I could try out? Do you think we'll
> ever see gaming through spice?

This depends more on QEMU-side by having the right bits upstream [0]
but it will probably take while.

[0] https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2015/04/virtio-gpu-and-virgl-status-update/

> I'm really looking forward to the future of spice, it truly is an
> amazing protocol.
>
> Anyway, apologies for the random email with questions you're
> probably tired of reading. Just figured I'd say hi and if there is
> anything I can do to help out with the development of spice then
> I'm very happy to.

Glad to hear it!

Best,
-toso