Re: Very poor performance on KVM with Ubuntu 12.10 guest

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Hi

I'm going to file two new items on the board 

1. Regarding the keymap (as at this point I do not know how to go about identifying the cause)

2. Regarding the ongoing TLS issue

RE: performance, I am not sure how graphics are rendered, the server has poor graphics capability, so I don't know how this affects the guest, I have a powerful desktop graphics card.

Problems are limited to menu's of some apps, such as Code::Blocks, and other non-lightweight apps, I can investigate resources, but given it seems to be limited to the GUI it is probably an emulation related thing.

Out of the box Xubuntu performs better than on ESX4.1 (but this is without any paravirtual drivers installed on ESX)

I read Ubuntu has all the drivers installed, but I noticed a package in source format on spice-space, I don't know if it is worth building the package for Xubuntu or if it is already done.


Neither of these are crucial right now, as I am setting up other software on another non-graphical guest, and can get away without it, 

I will apply all security later, its all local

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jodi Curtis <jodi.curtis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

The file doesn't exist on the host and I had already written off Ubuntu 12.x, the host is command line only, I moved to Xubuntu, which offers better performance, I am hoping I can improve it by using the guest source provided by spice, the Ubuntu guest was partially crashing (launcher I think). 

I've not decided whether to stick with Xubuntu yet.

I also have a problem with en-gb map not mapping some keys despite being configured in spice and on the guest os (#~ not working at all, @' mapping to ¬` and ¬` not working at all)

It is only a problem through spice, but three (four when programming) of these are quite important.

It's not the US map as " would be @, so I am about to Google for it, to see how I can edit it, and which bit is the problem


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM, David Jaša <djasa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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