VM Console Sluggish Performance

[mikeyo]

Hello

I'm in the process of migrating from ESXi 8 to Proxmox and one thing i got particularly used to is the ability to remote access the VM via the web browser, vmware workstation or through the built in console available in the ESXi host WebUI. Once VMtools is installed on the VM, display performance is more than adquate for me and I like the flexibility that this offers.

Moving to Proxmox, I would like to know how to achieve a similar level of performance using SPICE/virtGL etc. On my Proxmox host i have the Ryzen 7900 iGPU and tried using SPICE and VirtGL. Whilst the performance is better than VNC, it's still not quite as snappy and responsive as vmware. Are there any optimisations that I can implement to make the performance better?

Thanks.

 

[dcsapak]

Hi,

thanks for the feedback. Can you give an example of what you mean exactly? (E.g. a comparison video ?)
What kind of activity did you test?

Are there any optimisations that I can implement to make the performance better?

there are no real configuration knobs for either spice or vnc really.

In my experience, using some guest controlled remote software (like rdp for windows) works best if you need it often.

also note that virgl does not have windows drivers yet (you did not write what guest os you tested)

also for spice, you have to install the guest tools (via the virtio-win iso for windows, on linux it depends what distro, e.g. on debian based ones you'd use 'apt install spice-vdagent' )

 

[mikeyo]

Hi,

thanks for the feedback. Can you give an example of what you mean exactly? (E.g. a comparison video ?)
What kind of activity did you test?


there are no real configuration knobs for either spice or vnc really.

In my experience, using some guest controlled remote software (like rdp for windows) works best if you need it often.

also note that virgl does not have windows drivers yet (you did not write what guest os you tested)

also for spice, you have to install the guest tools (via the virtio-win iso for windows, on linux it depends what distro, e.g. on debian based ones you'd use 'apt install spice-vdagent' )

Ah, I didnt realise the lack of Win drivers was the issue here. I will try on Linux, thanks for your reply.