[Spice-devel] Very poor video performance using Virt Viewer compared to RDP

[Sergio L. Pascual]

On vie, 2016-10-14 at 09:17 +0200, Sergio L. Pascual wrote:
> On jue, 2016-10-13 at 13:30 +0000, Brad Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > Using Virt-Viewer The Vm shows a little lag when typing (always
> > takes
> > a second to catch up when typing my password to log in and such). 
> > In
> > general pulling up folders and  text heavy web pages is pretty
> > snappy
> > and doesn’t tax the cpu or memory at all.  If look at a site that
> > has
> > a lot of pictures I start seeing frame loss and the mouse gets a
> > little laggy when scrolling.  If I pull up a video I see the cpu
> > jump
> > a little and the video is extremely laggy and I see about ever 10th
> > frame of the video, at the same time I lose sight of the mouse
> > pointer for a second at a time and it becomes hard to control.   
> >  
> Make sure your guest is actually using the QXL driver (check
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log, or your distro's equivalent). Those symptoms
> seem
> to indicate your X is running with a fallback driver (vesa or
> similar).
> 

Just read it again, and noticed you're talking about a Windows 7 VM.
Forget what I wrote, and check your audio device on both sides (guest
and _client_).

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Sergio L. Pascual