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Re: [Xen-users] Very poor VNC performance

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Very poor VNC performance
From: Fabian Holler <fho@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:22:30 +0200
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Hello Ming-Wei,

On 11.08.2006 09:41, Ming-Wei Shih wrote:
> vnc is always slow on windows. There are a few thing that you can try
> 
> - tight vnc, beter encoding/compressing and single cursor
> - ultravnc with high speed mirror driver (for the display)

the problem isn't really the drawing speed, its the "A.4.3 Mouse issues,
especially under VNC" in
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html#SECTION04340000000000000000
andrej posted it before.

VNC will work better if i install it in the virtual machine.


> Fabian Holler wrote:
>> On 10.08.2006 20:58, Andrej Radonic wrote:
>>   
>>>> The vnc performance is very poor, also the real cursor and the vnc
>>>> cursor always have an ~1cm dictance on the screen. Normally the vnc
>>>> cursor and the real cursor are on top of each other.
>>>>
>>>> What can be wrong? How I can fix this?
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Fabian,
>>>
>>> probably nothing wrong, just the way things go with that kind of setup. 
>>> It just works - but not more.
>>> For (possible) optimizations have a look here:
>>>
>>> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html#SECTION04340000000000000000
>>>     
>>
>> Thank you for your answer andrej, I will try out the described
>> optimizations from the user manual.
>> I hope there will be another method to administrate the virtual machine
>> over network. The SDL console is better useable over SSH X11 forwarding
>> than VNC, the only problem is that I can't attach the console. :/
>> An attach function would be fine.
>>
>>   
>>> Otherwise I would strongly suggest you go for some kind of RDP remote 
>>> connection, like using rdesktop if you are sitting on a Linux client.
>>>     
>>
>> Yes RDP works fine, I'm allready using it. But only works if the guest
>> OS is allready seted up.
>> greetings
>>
>> Fabian
>>
>>   
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