On Sunday, March 26, 2017 11:08:39 PM AKDT Sören Busse wrote: > I've created a QEMU-VM with Windows 7 and the default QXL and virtio > drivers. The problem apperas if I try to connect to this VM from my LAN > which is limited to 1GBit/s > > Youtube videos are lagging and qemu is using the full 1GBit/s of bandwith. > If I connect to this VM via localhost it's working pretty smoothly, but as > soon as I limit my loopback interface using the "tc"-command I get the same > result like in my LAN. > > Is it normal that spice is using such a high bandwith and is there a way to > reduce it? I would say the best way to reduce bandwidth is by not watching youtube videos via a SPICE connection. :) I think the protocol is designed for remote control, not full-motion video. It is probably not as efficient as the compression used by youtube, and may not even be as efficient (although I haven't compared) as VNC. j -- Joshua J. Kugler - Fairbanks, Alaska Azariah Enterprises - Programming and Website Design joshua@xxxxxxxxxxx - Jabber: pedahzur@xxxxxxxxx PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel