On 10/16/2014 04:25 AM, Greg Sheremeta wrote: > Hey all, > > Using a high-end Fedora 20 host, I get very poor choppy performance running flash full-screen > in a Windows VM. I need to use Windows due to DRM stuff (nflsundayticket.tv). I've tried > different virtual graphics adapters, but nothing helps. Attempting 1920x1080. Flash 15. > Using remote-viewer or virt-manager, spice, QXL is set to 64 MB RAM. > > Some googling suggests that QXL just can't handle 1920x1080 flash fullscreen. > > Using VirtualBox gives pretty flawless performance at 1920x1080. But I want to use > virt-manager / virt-viewer and KVM, of course :) > > I've also had success using VLC to stream the non-maximized flash player from the windows > guest to the host, and then VLC scales up on the host (using host hardware acceleration, > I think). But this is a bit of a pain to manage. > > One option I've read about is passing through a graphics adapter. My host machine has > my primary nvidia card, but it also has the onboard Intel adapter that I don't use. Maybe > if I can pass this Intel card through, I'd get the performance I'm looking for. From what > I can tell, this isn't quite ready for primetime. > > I know about the 64bit vram bar, but I haven't tried it for this. Would it help? > > Any other ideas? Try turning off image compressoin: -spice image-compression=off,<other options> > > Thanks, > Greg > > Greg Sheremeta > Red Hat, Inc. > Sr. Software Engineer, RHEV > Cell: 919-807-1086 > gshereme@xxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > 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