In addition to what Christophe writes, you can try to disable surfaces in the guest driver: # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/qxl.conf Section "Device" Identifier "qxl" Driver "qxl" #Option "DPI" "96 x 96" #Option "ENABLE_IMAGE_CACHE" "True" #Option "ENABLE_FALLBACK_CACHE" "False" Option "ENABLE_SURFACES" "False" EndSection they are known pain point in linux guests. David Christophe Fergeau píše v Pá 16. 11. 2012 v 11:52 +0100: > Hey, > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:14:39AM +0000, Jodi Curtis wrote: > > Having fought my way through getting used to KVM, I have installed a > > development desktop along side some servers, and the performance is > > unusable. > > > > The Ubuntu GUI seems very slow and not very responsive. It was not as bad > > as VGA but it is still unusable, all I need is to work in a development gui > > and do the things developers do, but if I can't even get text entered in at > > normal speed, and have menu's responsive enough to use, it's not much good > > to me. > > Have you tried other desktop environments than Ubuntu GUI? (I assume this is > Unity3d?) The 3d rendering has to be done in software, and I'm not sure > how Unity behaves in such setups, so worth checking with another desktop > environment not relying on 3d. > > Christophe > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel -- David Jaša, RHCE SPICE QE based in Brno GPG Key: 22C33E24 Fingerprint: 513A 060B D1B4 2A72 7F0D 0278 B125 CD00 22C3 3E24 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel