Re: 3D Support

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Il 12/06/2015 14:45, Chris Harvey ha scritto:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Many thanks for your replies.
>
> Looks like you're making some great progress with 3D support.
>
> I'm thinking about co-locating one of my servers into a data centre so I can travel using just my thin-client laptop and SPICE, but I'm not sure how well it will perform if it's not on the LAN.
>
> Sent from my iPhone 6

With bad connection like the my adsl with one quarter of mbps of upload
(like major of Italy users I think) spice is not good but if you put the
server in a webfarm with very good connections and low latency and you
have a good connection client-side probably will be quite usable FWIK

>
>> On 12 Jun 2015, at 10:02 am, Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Thanks for your interest in SPICE!
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 01:46:42PM +0100, Chris Harvey wrote:
>>> I currently use spice in my home. I have a server in my attic
>>> which has several virtual machines running on it (Windows &
>>> Linux). I then have some really low spec laptops and Raspberry
>>> Pi's which I use as thin clients > to connect to the virtual
>>> machines through spice.
>>>
>>> Pretty weird setup, but it works pretty well with HD video etc.
>> That's very cool! I'm quite curious about Raspberry Pi as client for
>> quite some time now, how is the user experience?
> The Raspberry Pi 2 I've managed to turn into a pretty good thin client. It's running a custom version of Debian Jessie with virt-viewer and IceWM as a minimal window manager.
>
> I tried with a Raspberry Pi Model B, but the performance was a bit flakey.
>
>>> The only thing missing is support for 3D, primarily for desktop
>>> effects such as Aero or gnome shell.
>>>
>>> Has there been much progress with 3D support, if so, is there any
>>> experimental spice build that I could try out? Do you think we'll
>>> ever see gaming through spice?
>> This depends more on QEMU-side by having the right bits upstream [0]
>> but it will probably take while.
>>
>> [0] https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2015/04/virtio-gpu-and-virgl-status-update/
> Makes sense. Many thanks for the link.
>
>>> I'm really looking forward to the future of spice, it truly is an
>>> amazing protocol.
>>>
>>> Anyway, apologies for the random email with questions you're
>>> probably tired of reading. Just figured I'd say hi and if there is
>>> anything I can do to help out with the development of spice then
>>> I'm very happy to.
>> Glad to hear it!
>>
>> Best,
>> -toso
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