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

[Uri Lublin]

On 7/26/20 4:36 PM, Armin Ranjbar wrote:
> 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)

I think there is no blocker for running it on windows guests.
I never tried it.

Uri.

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> Armin ranjbar
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> 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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