[Spice-devel] spice-streaming-agent, the motivation and drive

[Armin Ranjbar]

Thanks for the Info,

looking at the code, it seems support for running the streaming agent on
windows is not yet implemented, is there a blocker to this? (excluding the
build scripts, etc)

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Armin ranjbar



On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 5:18 PM Uri Lublin <uril at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 7/25/20 6:43 PM, Armin Ranjbar wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > First of all, let me thank you again for your efforts!
> >
> > I was reading on spice-streaming-agent, which is in experimental stage,
> and
> > I was wondering what is the driver behind the idea?
> > Will that lead to less bandwidth consumption? less latency? or is it
> just a
> > refactoring to make the codebase cleaner?
>
> Hi,
>
> It is possible to configure a VM with a hardware GPU (either assign the
> whole
> device to the VM or a part of it).
> That is helpful for running, on the guest, applications that require such
> strong GPU (e.g. 3D graphics).
> When that is the case, spice-streaming-agent can use the GPU
> on the guest
> to stream video (encode the screenbuffer and send it).
> This is what spice-streaming-agent does and it indeed leads to less
> bandwidth used.
>
> Uri.
>
>
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