[Spice-devel] 3D Support

[Chris Harvey]

Hey everyone,

Many thanks for your replies.

Looks like you're making some great progress with 3D support.

I'm thinking about co-locating one of my servers into a data centre so I can travel using just my thin-client laptop and SPICE, but I'm not sure how well it will perform if it's not on the LAN.

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> On 12 Jun 2015, at 10:02 am, Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 Raspberry Pi 2 I've managed to turn into a pretty good thin client. It's running a custom version of Debian Jessie with virt-viewer and IceWM as a minimal window manager.

I tried with a Raspberry Pi Model B, but the performance was a bit flakey.

> 
>> 
>> 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/

Makes sense. Many thanks for the link.

> 
>> 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