<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2017 at 10:34, Pavel Grunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgrunt@redhat.com" target="_blank">pgrunt@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br><span class=""><br>
On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 10:06 +0200, George Diamantopoulos wrote:<br>
> Hello all,<br>
><br>
> I'm trying out qxl-dod<br>
<br>
</span>Do you mean qxl-wddm-dod by qxl-dod ? If not you can get it from<br><a href="https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl-wddm-dod/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl-wddm-dod/</a><br><a href="https://gitlab.com/spice/qxl-wddm-dod" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/spice/qxl-wddm-dod</a><br><br>
The latest version is 0.15 released in December<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I've also tried that binary with the same results :-(.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>At least is not worst.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I never experiences such terrible performances.<br></div><div>What are you doing on the guest machine? Normal office applications?<br></div><div>Playing videos?<br></div><div>Which image compression are you using?<br></div><div>What's the quality of the network? What about bandwidth and latency?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Frediano<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Pavel<br><div><div class="h5"><br>
> in a new installation, and performance is so low that the guest is<br>
> practically unusable. Redrawing takes about 4-5 seconds. I have used<br>
> qxl-dod in the past on the same hardware with much better results,<br>
> although the software stack is different this time. I tried<br>
> disabling all visual effects, but apart from the expected gains<br>
> (fewer frames to redraw after each action due to the animations'<br>
> being disabled) it didn't improve usability much.<br>
><br>
> As I have no idea how to provide useful debugging information on<br>
> this, I'll try to outline my configuration here for now. Please let<br>
> me know if there's anything I can do to provide more meaningful<br>
> information:<br>
><br>
> Host: Gentoo linux, kernel 4.9.1<br>
> Hypervizor: Xen 4.8.0<br>
> QEMU: 2.8.0 (I'm not using xen's spin of qemu)<br>
> libvirt: 2.5.0<br>
> virt-manager: 1.4.0<br>
> spice: 0.13.3<br>
> seabios: 1.10.1<br>
><br>
> Windows Guest VM is started with the following options:<br>
> /usr/libexec/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 -xen-domid 2 -chardev<br>
> socket,id=libxl-cmd,path=/run/xen/qmp-libxl-2,server,nowait -no-<br>
> shutdown -mon chardev=libxl-cmd,mode=control -chardev<br>
> socket,id=libxenstat-cmd,path=/run/xen/qmp-libxenstat-<br>
> 2,server,nowait -mon chardev=libxenstat-cmd,mode=control -nodefaults<br>
> -no-user-config -name Windows -vnc none -display none -k en-us<br>
> -serial pty -spice port=5901,tls-port=0,disable-ticketing,agent-<br>
> mouse=on,disable-copy-paste -device qxl-<br>
> vga,vram_size_mb=64,ram_size_mb=64 -boot order=cd -smp 2,maxcpus=2<br>
> -device rtl8139,id=nic0,netdev=net0,mac=00:16:3e:25:27:01 -netdev<br>
> type=tap,id=net0,ifname=vif2.0-emu,script=no,downscript=no -machine<br>
> xenfv -m 1920 -drive<br>
> file=/dev/zvol/tank/windows,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cac<br>
> he=writeback -drive if=ide,index=1,readonly=on,media=cdrom,id=ide-<br>
> 832,file=/home/gd/Downloads/ISOs/SW_DVD5_WIN_ENT_N_LTSB_2016_64BIT_E<br>
> ng_Intl_MLF_X21-07527.ISO,format=raw<br>
><br>
> I have used both vrozenfe binaries and flexvdi binaries: it made no<br>
> difference at all...<br>
> Also note that the mouse cursor is generally responsive. It will<br>
> only lag for a bit when hovering over items that need some<br>
> refreshing (e.g. highlighting).<br>
> BR,<br>
> George</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>