> Greetings, > > I'm a big Red Hat / clone slash Fedora guy... and I use use a lot of > KVM. I primarily create Fedora, RHEL/clone, and Windows KVM guests > and they work great... but every once in a while I like to try out > an Ubuntu release just to see what's new. I have tried their Unity > spin as well as their Xubuntu spin... for a few releases now. I'd > expect Unity to be slow because it is similar to GNOME 3 in that it > wants to do that 3D stuff. But with Xubuntu and XFCE, I'd expect it > to be snappy. That has NOT been my experience. It is really slow. > Moving a window around is extremely choppy and it can even lag out > (where it doesn't respond at all) for periods of time. I haven't > done much troubleshooting of this but I have done a few installs on > a variety of hardware (for the host node) and used a variety of > client machines and the pokey experience has been the same. > > I suspect it has something to do with the mouse emulation used > because the Xubuntu desktop seems to perform fairly well until the > mouse is moved. > > Any ideas? Maybe there is some configuration change either in KVM or > in Xubuntu that will improve the situation. I use virt-manager to > create the guests (on Fedora and RHEL) and pick the closest Ubuntu > version listed. So on the same host a fedora vm works fast but the ubuntu is slow? I suspect the driver is not installed or not recognized in the ubuntu vm. Can you provide the X log? > > TYL, > -- > Scott Dowdle > 704 Church Street > Belgrade, MT 59714 > (406)388-0827 [home] > (406)994-3931 [work] > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel