To address the limitation that this option is incompatible with remote clients, this patch series adds an option to select a preferred codec and also enable gl=on option for clients that are connected via the network. In other words, with this option enabled (and the below linked Spice series merged), it would be possible to have Qemu share a dmabuf fd with Spice, which would then forward it to a hardware or software based encoder and eventually send the data associated with the fd to a client that could be located on a different machine.
Essentially, this patch series provides a hardware accelerated, opensource VDI option for users using Qemu and Spice by leveraging the iGPU/dGPU on the host machine via the Gstreamer framework. v2 -> v3: - Check for errors after invoking glImportMemoryFdEXT() using glGetError() and report the error to user (Dmitry) v1 -> v2: - Replace the option name preferred-codec with video-codecs (Marc-André) - Add a warning when an fd cannot be created from texture (Marc-André) - Add a new patch to blit the scanout texture into a linear one to make it work with virgl - Rebased and tested against the latest Spice master Tested with the following Qemu parameters: -device virtio-vga,max_outputs=1,xres=1920,yres=1080,blob=true -spice port=3001,gl=on,disable-ticketing=on,video-codecs=gstreamer:h264 and remote-viewer --spice-debug spice://x.x.x.x:3001 on the client side. Associated Spice server MR (merged): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/-/merge_requests/229 --- Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> Cc: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipe...@collabora.com> Cc: Frediano Ziglio <fredd...@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Scherle <michael.sche...@rz.uni-freiburg.de> Cc: Dongwon Kim <dongwon....@intel.com> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> Vivek Kasireddy (6): ui/spice: Add an option for users to provide a preferred codec ui/spice: Enable gl=on option for non-local or remote clients ui/spice: Submit the gl_draw requests at 60 FPS for remote clients ui/console-gl: Add a helper to create a texture with linear memory layout ui/spice: Create a new texture with linear layout when gl=on is enabled ui/spice: Blit the scanout texture if its memory layout is not linear include/ui/console.h | 2 + include/ui/spice-display.h | 4 + qemu-options.hx | 5 + ui/console-gl.c | 28 ++++++ ui/spice-core.c | 16 ++++ ui/spice-display.c | 184 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 6 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 2.49.0
