[Spice-devel] lots of what looks like "memory issues" to me but I don't know enough to understand the messages...

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey,

On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 11:28:57PM +0100, Graeme Vetterlein wrote:
> I bought a Intel i7 with 16Gb of RAM , installed Fedora20 (then current)
> it was called "real"  .. my intent was to run all my systems as virtual
> machines under it . Sadly over a year on on I've not managed it due to
> the very slow graphics. Today I just built a new vm of the latest Jessie
> (Debian 8). The default (which I kept to) was spice+QXL+64mb.
> Performance was horrible. It was slightly better if I used fvwm , but
> the greatest improvement came from switching to VNC. 
> 
> Lots of messages in /var/log/messages:
> 
> <date time> name gdm-Xorg:0[875]: Out of Surfaces   
> 

I'd try disabling surfaces in the Xorg config file:
EnableSurfaces 0 (something like that)
or set QXL_ENABLE_SURFACES to 0 in your environment before starting
Xorg.

Christophe
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