On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:58:55PM -0700, Kai Meyer wrote: > > > On 02/21/2012 10:57 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:49:04AM -0700, Kai Meyer wrote: > >> > >>On 02/20/2012 05:19 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>>On 02/15/2012 06:22 PM, Kai Meyer wrote: > >>>> > >>>>On 02/15/2012 05:19 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote: > >>>>>On 02/15/2012 01:16 AM, Kai Meyer wrote: > >>>>>>Help me set my expectations straight. Should I be able to > >>>>>>use spice from > >>>>>>inside a VM on my local machine to view video streaming services like > >>>>>>Youtube, Hulu, and Netflix? I have RHEL 6 Workstation for my host, and > >>>>>>Win7 Pro as my guest. I've installed the qxl driver in the > >>>>>>VM, and used > >>>>>>Virt-manager to configure the VM to use Spice as my Display and Video > >>>>>>Model is qxl. > >>>>>> > >>>>>You should be able to do it. But it depends on you network conditions > >>>>>(client to host). > >>>>> > >>>>>Yonit. > >>>>>>-Kai Meyer > >>>>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>>>Spice-devel mailing list > >>>>>>Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > >>>>>>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > >>>>This is a VM on my local machine, so I'm effectively connecting to > >>>>localhost. Network conditions should be the least concern, yet playback > >>>>is terrible. > >>>> > >>>Which spice client do you run? > >>>Another possible reason for the slow playback is that Rhel 6 > >>>doesn't have libjpeg-turbo. > >>> > >>>Yonit. > >>>>-Kai Meyer > >>I'm using the spice client that comes in the default RHEL 6 > >>repositories. libjpeg-turbo is not installed as a system library > >>anywhere I can find. If I am cpu-bound, it seems like it would be > >>the qemu process running the VM. My spicec process does not utilize > >>more than 50% of a cpu (as reported by top). > >How many cores do you have? if 2, then 50% *is* cpu bound. You can use > >htop for better reporting. > > > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Spice-devel mailing list > >>Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > >>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > top's CPU% for a process is percent of a core, so processes can take > up to 200% on a dual-core machine. For further clarification, I > typically see 15%-30% cpu utilization on the spicec process, and > anywhere from 80%-170% CPU utilization on the qemu process running > the VM (the VM has access to 2 of my 8 cores). >
Right, I always get this confused. Sorry for the noise. > -Kai Meyer > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
