Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-25 Thread Ralf
On 06/25/2015 01:29 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: What will the Qt application be doing? Any of those setups should be sufficient for a typical GUI program. Highest performance would probably be passing a discrete card to the guest... not particularly the smartest move, but it would account for every

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-25 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:47, Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de wrote: On 06/25/2015 01:29 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: What will the Qt application be doing? Any of those setups should be sufficient for a typical GUI program. Highest performance would probably be passing a discrete card to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-25 Thread Ralf
Oh, I forgot about the gtk and sdl displays... I'll test them together with QXL. Thanks for your hint! But anyways, I'll need two X servers when using this setup - one on the VM and one on the hypervisor. Shouldn't X11 forwarding be less overhead? Thank you Ralf On 06/25/2015 05:44 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread R0b0t1
What will the Qt application be doing? Any of those setups should be sufficient for a typical GUI program. Highest performance would probably be passing a discrete card to the guest... not particularly the smartest move, but it would account for every usecase. Barring that, #2 should have the

[gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread Ralf
Hi out there, assume the following situation: I do have a minimalistic hypervisor running a minimalistic virtual machine (qemu with kvm, qxl and spice). Both systems, hypervisor and VM are able to run X servers and apllications. The graphics card of the hypervisor is connected to a monitor. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread wabenbau
Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de wrote: Hi out there, assume the following situation: I do have a minimalistic hypervisor running a minimalistic virtual machine (qemu with kvm, qxl and spice). Both systems, hypervisor and VM are able to run X servers and apllications. The