[Spice-devel] QXL-WDDM-DOD v0.4-1 released

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> Il 25/10/2016 16:16, Dmitry Fleytman ha scritto:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We are glad to notify you that the first official version of QXL-WDDM-DOD
> > driver with Windows 10 support has been released.
> >
> > This version was built from tag v0.4-1
> > @ https://gitlab.com/spice/qxl-wddm-dod/
> >
> > Precompiled and signed by Red Hat binaries are available at:
> > https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl-wddm-dod/qxl-wddm-dod-0.4-1/qxlwddm-0.4-1.zip
> >
> > Source tarball is available at:
> > https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl-wddm-dod/qxl-wddm-dod-0.4-1/qxlwddm-0.4-1-sources.zip
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dmitry
> Thanks to any people worked/working on it.
> I tried it on windows 10 pro 64 bit when before I had qxl-dod taken from
> flexvdi-guest-tools-2.2.9.exe (source: https://github.com/flexVDI/qxl-dod)
> The new official driver is working but performance is bad, with any
> video local or web, fullscreen or not, also on very low resolution
> (1024x768), mouse move lag is very high and near unusable, performance
> bad is visible also on basic use case like websites scrolling.
> Before install new driver I removed the unofficial flex one from windows
> device manager, checked that new is used and also rebooted windows.
> I also tried different clients with different spice-gtk/virt-viewer
> version on both windows and linux.
> Same result, the thing seems related to the new driver.
> I suppose that flex driver have some different that make the performance
> better or there is a bug/unexpected case in new driver, but I not
> checked the source code and I don't have experience in windows drivers
> coding.
> If you need more informations/tests tell me and I'll post them.
> 
> Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.
> 
> 

Ciao Fabio,

I think what you are experiencing is not real performance but
a different way the mouse is handled.
I was looking at differences in our driver and FlexVDI one and this
is one of them.
We (at least some people related to RedHat and some other from
FlexVDI) are willing to merge the two efforts.
Fabio, do you have some Windows 8 machine you can test?
Would be really helpful.

Frediano