Hello, testing w2k3 guest performance using rh el 6 as the host. Installed paravirt block and network I/O and started guest with -spice port=5934,disable-ticketing -vga qxl through virt-manager and a wrapper script.
At the beginning it seemed all ok, but now I see some sluggish in - the host side during an ssh session I notice some strange latencies... without particular load apparently - the guest side where the mouse doesn't move so smoothly and it seems I have sometime to double click to have a single click guest effect in guest hardware configuration I see I have both tablet and mouse (in fact in guest command line there is "-usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0") Do I have to remove one of them? What is better with spice in this case? The backing storage for the guest is LVM based and drivers used are the ones provided by rh el 6 virtio-win-1.1.16-0.el6.noarch The spice client I'm using is the one present in F13 x86_64 spice-client-0.6.0-1.fc13.x86_64 On rh el 6 I notice there is: spice-server-0.4.2-15.el6.x86_64 Complete command line provided by virt-manager is this: qemu 330 1 9 14:16 ? 00:00:01 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.0.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name w2k3db -uuid 02e80e44-cc66-b992-1ba6-0df5b1c1aed8 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/w2k3db.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -boot dc -drive file=/databases/gparted-live-0.5.2-9.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/dev/vmimages_01/w2k3_db,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:bf:6c:dd,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -net tap,fd=21,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5934,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 Any hint on make the experience better? Initially I thought the sluggish could depend on audio card configured at guest level, but then I removed it and it persists... On the server I have other 4 linux guest started, quite idle and with paravirt drivers too: 1x rh el 4 32bit 1x rh el 4 64 bit 1x rh el 6 64 bit 1x rh el 5.4 64 bit host has 2socket quad core cpus + ht (so 16 cpu seen by os) and 48Gb ram storage is iSCSI 10Gbit with multipath... when in sluggish situation output of free command: [r...@testrh6 ~]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 49550532 10531784 39018748 0 2684728 268284 -/+ buffers/cache: 7578772 41971760 Swap: 16777208 0 16777208 output of vmstat 3 [r...@testrh6 ~]# vmstat 3 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 0 41642472 2280760 234784 0 0 3 2 39 22 0 1 99 0 0 2 0 0 41642260 2280760 234784 0 0 0 0 2120 9656 0 1 99 0 0 4 6 0 41641084 2280760 234784 0 0 0 56 1917 8446 0 1 99 0 0 Thanks in advance Gianluca _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel