[Spice-devel] Offload pixel encoding via Virgil

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:15:01PM -0700, Benjamin Kingston wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to increase guest density by offloading the
> pixel codec in the guests to a common onboard GPU?
>
> In other words, does the Spice Agent, particularly in Windows
> 10, leverage OpenGL or other Virgil features to reduce CPU load
> when full screen refreshing is taking place?
>
> Thanks,

Virgl on Windows is not a thing yet, AFAIK.

* 'Future scope' at
  - https://virgil3d.github.io/

* GSOC 2017
  - https://gist.github.com/Keenuts/199184f9a6d7a68d9a62cf0011147c0b

Depending on your configs, you could try Looking Glass for now.

https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass

Cheers,
        toso
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