[ovirt-users] Very Slow Console Performance - Windows 10

Wed Mar 7 19:32:25 UTC 2018

Hi

I don't think these issue have much to do with Spice, but with the 
amount of memory oVirt sets to VMs by default, which in some cases for 
desktop usage seems too little. A field where that could be adjusted 
without having to edit files in the Engine would probably resolve this 
issue, or am I missing anything ?

Fernando

On 07/03/2018 15:43, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>
>
>> On 7 Mar 2018, at 14:03, FERNANDO FREDIANI <fernando.frediani at upx.com 
>> <mailto:fernando.frediani at upx.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Gianluca
>>
>> Resurrecting this topic. I made the changes as per your instructions 
>> below on the Engine configuration but it had no effect on the VM 
>> graphics memory. Is it necessary to restart the Engine after adding 
>> the 20-overload.properties file ? Also I don't think is necessary to 
>> do any changes on the hosts right ?
>>
> correct on both
>>
>> On the recent updates has anything changed in the terms on how to 
>> change the video memory assigned to any given VM. I guess it is 
>> something that has been forgotten overtime, specially if you are 
>> running a VDI-like environment whcih depends very much on the video 
>> memory.
>>
> there were no changes recently, these are the most recent guidelines 
> we got from SPICE people. They might be out of date. Would be good to 
> raise that specifically (the performance difference for default sizes) 
> to them, can you narrow it down and post to 
> spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org 
> <mailto:spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>?
>
> Thanks,
> michal
>>
>> Let me know.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Fernando Frediani
>>
>>
>> On 24/11/2017 20:45, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 5:50 PM, FERNANDO FREDIANI 
>>> <fernando.frediani at upx.com <mailto:fernando.frediani at upx.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I have made a Export of the same VM created in oVirt to a server
>>>     running pure qemu/KVM and which creates new VMs profiles with
>>>     vram 65536 and it turned on the Windows 10 which run perfectly
>>>     with that configuration.
>>>
>>>     Was reading some documentation that it may be possible to change
>>>     the file /usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf/osinfo-defaults.properties
>>>     in order to change it for the profile you want but I am not sure
>>>     how these changed should be made if directly in that file, on
>>>     another one just with custom configs and also how to apply them
>>>     immediatelly to any new or existing VM ? I am pretty confident
>>>     once vram is increased that should resolve the issue with not
>>>     only Windows 10 VMs, but other as well.
>>>
>>>     Anyone can give a hint about the correct procedure to apply this
>>>     change ?
>>>
>>>     Thanks in advance.
>>>     Fernando
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Fernando,
>>> based on this:
>>> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/os-info/ 
>>> <https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/os-info/>
>>>
>>> you should create a file of kind
>>> /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d/20-overload.properties
>>> but I think you can only overwrite the multiplier and not directly 
>>> the vgamem (or vgamem_mb in rhel 7) values
>>>
>>> so that you could put something like this inside it:
>>>
>>> os.windows_10.devices.display.vramMultiplier.value = 2
>>> os.windows_10x64.devices.display.vramMultiplier.value = 2
>>>
>>> I think there are no values for vgamem_mb
>>>
>>> I found these two threads in 2016
>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/073692.html
>>> that confirms you cannot set vgamem
>>> and
>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/073786.html
>>> that suggests to create a hook
>>>
>>> Just a hack that came into mind:
>>> in a CentOS vm of mine in a 4.1.5 environment I see that by default 
>>> I get this qemu command line
>>>
>>> -device 
>>> qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=33554432,vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2
>>>
>>> Based on this:
>>> https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/draft/video-ram/ 
>>> <https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/draft/video-ram/>
>>>
>>> you have
>>> vgamem = 16 MB * number_of_heads
>>>
>>> I verified that if I edit the vm in the gui and set Monitors=4 in 
>>> console section (but with the aim of using only the first head) and 
>>> then I power off and power on the VM, I get now
>>>
>>> -device 
>>> qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=268435456,vram_size=134217728,vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=64,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2
>>>
>>> I have not a client to connect and verify any improvement: I don't 
>>> know if you will be able to use all the new ram in the only first 
>>> head with a better experience or if it is partitioned in some way...
>>> Could you try eventually?
>>>
>>> Gianluca
>>
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