On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:29:03AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried using a 32bit Windows Vista guest on both VirtualBox and > KVM, hosted on 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 (DualCore AMD Athlon X2, 8G RAM, > Radeon graphics). > > After installing VBox guest additions on the Windows guest, > performance, especially graphics (desktop) performance, is quite good. > While there is some flicker when moving windows around on the desktop, > the moved windows actually keeps moving fluently. > > OTOH, with KVM, the whole desktop experience is rather poor. Windows > more or less jump while being moved and the whole system feels really > slow. I've tried with all the different graphics adapter settings (and > also installed VMWare graphics drivers), but nothing comes close to > VirtualBox' performance. > > In both cases, screen resolution was set to 1280x960, with highest > possible color depth. Connection to VirtualBox was done via RDP, while > VNC was used for KVM (using krdc from KDE on both cases). > > I'd really like to use KVM instead of VirtualBox, so is there anything > I can do to get better graphics performance? You can use the qxl device and spice protocol. You could try virt-manager or gnome-boxes for setting it up. It should give you better performance. > > Thanks a lot. > > Bye... > > Dirk > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
