VDI at home with Spice or other viable alternatives

[brb88]

My end goal is to have the ability to launch a few VMs on the LAN and get near native performance for a casual user, 2d is a must for watching videos.

I'd like the end device to be an inexpensive chromebook. I have one for testing. I've been testing on my Windows Desktop as well.

My spice performance is decent using the below. youtube is pretty bad and it's still a little choppy scolling in menus. I haven't tested the virtual audio card yet. It crashes when increasing the resolution over default. i'm considering upgrading if I can get better performance. Is the integrated gpu on the server slowing it down or does spice not utilize the gpu heavily? Would running a Gt 1030 for server graphics help or is that a waste?

server: proxmox, xeon e3-1260L, 8G ddr3, hdd+ssd cache
guest os: ubuntu 16.04 4cores, 4G ram, QXL driver working
remote: xeon e3-1231v3, 8G ddr3, GTX1050, SSD, win10
network: wired 1Gb/s level2 switch

I'm considering building out a rig to do passthrough with 2 GTX 1050s and using moonlight. The performance is exceptional with a shield tv, but the cost is high if the guest doesn't need 3d.

 

[fireon]

Have here also Spice with Windows10, on working it is feeling like a fast workstation. No problem with , youtube not tested. But we havend here chromebooks. First test it with an normal workstation. If this is working fine, go to your preferred hardware and to your further tests. I use flexvdi drivers. https://depot.flexvdi.com/guest-tools/

 

[brb88]

Did you have to adjust your graphics memory? I had found a video where he had to manually adjust it to get better performance. I think he was using the QXL driver.

What are your server specs? Does it have a dedicated card?