[Spice-devel] Dreadful performance under Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB

[George Diamantopoulos]

On 10 January 2017 at 10:34, Pavel Grunt <pgrunt at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 10:06 +0200, George Diamantopoulos wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm trying out qxl-dod
>
> Do you mean qxl-wddm-dod by qxl-dod ? If not you can get it from
>  https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl-wddm-dod/
>  https://gitlab.com/spice/qxl-wddm-dod
>
> The latest version is 0.15 released in December
>

Yes, I've also tried that binary with the same results :-(.


>
> Pavel
>
> >  in a new installation, and performance is so low that the guest is
> > practically unusable. Redrawing takes about 4-5 seconds. I have used
> > qxl-dod in the past on the same hardware with much better results,
> > although the software stack is different this time. I tried
> > disabling all visual effects, but apart from the expected gains
> > (fewer frames to redraw after each action due to the animations'
> > being disabled) it didn't improve usability much.
> >
> > As I have no idea how to provide useful debugging information on
> > this, I'll try to outline my configuration here for now. Please let
> > me know if there's anything I can do to provide more meaningful
> > information:
> >
> > Host: Gentoo linux, kernel 4.9.1
> > Hypervizor: Xen 4.8.0
> > QEMU: 2.8.0 (I'm not using xen's spin of qemu)
> > libvirt: 2.5.0
> > virt-manager: 1.4.0
> > spice: 0.13.3
> > seabios: 1.10.1
> >
> > Windows Guest VM is started with the following options:
> > /usr/libexec/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 -xen-domid 2 -chardev
> > socket,id=libxl-cmd,path=/run/xen/qmp-libxl-2,server,nowait -no-
> > shutdown -mon chardev=libxl-cmd,mode=control -chardev
> > socket,id=libxenstat-cmd,path=/run/xen/qmp-libxenstat-
> > 2,server,nowait -mon chardev=libxenstat-cmd,mode=control -nodefaults
> > -no-user-config -name Windows -vnc none -display none -k en-us
> > -serial pty -spice port=5901,tls-port=0,disable-ticketing,agent-
> > mouse=on,disable-copy-paste -device qxl-
> > vga,vram_size_mb=64,ram_size_mb=64 -boot order=cd -smp 2,maxcpus=2
> > -device rtl8139,id=nic0,netdev=net0,mac=00:16:3e:25:27:01 -netdev
> > type=tap,id=net0,ifname=vif2.0-emu,script=no,downscript=no -machine
> > xenfv -m 1920 -drive
> > file=/dev/zvol/tank/windows,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cac
> > he=writeback -drive if=ide,index=1,readonly=on,media=cdrom,id=ide-
> > 832,file=/home/gd/Downloads/ISOs/SW_DVD5_WIN_ENT_N_LTSB_2016_64BIT_E
> > ng_Intl_MLF_X21-07527.ISO,format=raw
> >
> > I have used both vrozenfe binaries and flexvdi binaries: it made no
> > difference at all...
> > Also note that the mouse cursor is generally responsive. It will
> > only lag for a bit when hovering over items that need some
> > refreshing (e.g. highlighting).
> > BR,
> > George
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