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Hi,<br>
<br>
We've been talking to a lot of thin client hardware vendors in the
last weeks. And the general trend I see that when we talk about
RHEV/oVirt support, most have advised against using spice for VDI
due to high network usage and spotty performance.<br>
<br>
One of them is willing to have his engineers to look at it again but
he want's to know if there have been any performance improvements
since RHEV 3.1. They looked at it then and found it not to be a
viable option for VDI.<br>
<br>
Information about spice is pretty hard to find and I don't feel like
trawling through the spice-devel mailinglist archives today.<br>
<br>
And I see this on the wiki as still to do:<br>
<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important;
float: none;">This page includes a lot of features spice
could use. It's an accumulation of both meetings and over
the years added ideas. It is a jumbled mess. The feature
pages are also not all that up to date. On the bright side,
it can all be fixed - if you are in charge of a feature
please try to update it! if you know something has been
updated in code please fix it here!</span></span></h1>
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id="Performance">Performance</span></h2>
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<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a
href="http://www.spice-space.org/page/ProtocolChanges"
title="ProtocolChanges" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(104, 116, 133);">Protocol changes / optimizations</a></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a
href="http://www.spice-space.org/page/EnhancePerf"
title="EnhancePerf" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(104, 116, 133);">Improving performance</a></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a
href="http://www.spice-space.org/page/Features/Faster_compression"
title="Features/Faster compression" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(104, 116, 133);">Faster compression</a></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a
href="http://www.spice-space.org/page/Features/Bandwidth_monitoring"
title="Features/Bandwidth monitoring"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(104, 116, 133);">Bandwidth
monitoring</a></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;">advanced caching (proxy
cache & persistent cache)</li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a
href="http://www.spice-space.org/page/Features/CodecPassthrough"
title="Features/CodecPassthrough" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(104, 116, 133);">encoded audio/video
pass-through</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(marc)</li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a
href="http://www.spice-space.org/page/Features/MediaRedirection"
title="Features/MediaRedirection" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(104, 116, 133);">redirect media streams to
by-pass VDI server</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(fedor)</li>
</ul>
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<br>
Is anyone using spice & thin clients + ovirt for VDI and what
are the experiences? Or does someone have some recent info about
improvements being implemented in the spice code?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Jorick Astrego<br>
<br>
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