Re: [Spice-devel] spice performance

2010-06-10 Thread Brian Milliron
Dave, Is that the release version of qxl that is working for you or the dev version here? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video- qxl/commit/?id=563f31ad081038ece8b5a5b525dd516fcd6ad0fd I've tried both and get a segmentation fault either way, only the dev release crashes the whole Ubu

[Spice-devel] spice performance

2010-06-09 Thread Brian Milliron
I did finally get the .4 version of spice installed, however the video performance is somewhat lacking. From the manual I gather qxl drivers are needed for best performance. I believe I've installed those drivers on my guest VM but the performance has not noticeably changed. Is there any way to

Re: [Spice-devel] spice performance

2010-06-07 Thread Brian Milliron
Thanks to everyone who helped with this issue. Turns out I was missing a step of editing the xorg.conf file which I did manage to do.. only to have the new driver promptly segfault on me. The folks over at xorg pointed out it looks like a bug in qxl, and it appears to have been reported here once

[Spice-devel] spice performance

2010-06-02 Thread Brian Milliron
I did finally get the .4 version of spice installed, however the video performance is somewhat lacking. From the manual I gather qxl drivers are needed for best performance. I believe I've installed those drivers on my guest VM but the performance has not noticeably changed. Is there any way to

Re: [Spice-devel] Spice install problem

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Milliron
> configure typically looks for "upstream" source tarball modules, like > "libgcrypt", these are often split into multiple packages on a distro, > but the configure scripts don't have any idea about this. Ok that makes more sense. > > This means you don't have libsdl devel packages installed,

Re: [Spice-devel] Spice install problem

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Milliron
> You quoted this: > > > In case of an older kernel (version < 2.6.30) > > Get kernel sources using the following git repository: > > ... > > Obviously the version numbers involved here (2.6.30) refer to upstream > versions. Whats in the centos kernel is quite different than any > upstream k

Re: [Spice-devel] Spice install problem

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Milliron
> I don't know how the kvm/kernel stuff of vdesktop is set up really, but > i think your problem is that the kernels you're using are not compatible > somehow. Possibly because the rhel kernel you're using already has kvm > backports in it. Have you tried to not get the new kernel source (i.e. > a

[Spice-devel] Spice install problem

2010-05-25 Thread Brian Milliron
I posted this question to the kvm list as had been suggested. I was told that is not the right list and vdesktop uses an outdated version of kvm and something about user code and kernel code having been forked. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but I'm still looking for answers to my pro

Re: [Spice-devel] Spice install problem

2010-05-23 Thread Brian Milliron
Really? I'll post over there and see, but the question was specifically about spice installation and not kvm. > Seems like a good question for the kvm list: > k...@vger.kernel.org > > Brian Milliron wrote: >> I apologize if this is not the right place for this question,

[Spice-devel] Spice install problem

2010-05-20 Thread Brian Milliron
I apologize if this is not the right place for this question, but I'm running into some problems installing Spice .4 on my CentOS 5.5. I was following the instructions here: http://www.spice-space.org/docs/spice_user_manual.pdf I've compiled and installed all the dependencies and have the spice c