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| author | Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com> | 2017-11-08 14:17:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com> | 2017-11-08 13:57:07 +0000 |
| commit | c065bbc1ebd94afd098ced6a7e5b20babfe4c3ba (patch) | |
| tree | c761d12a73fd77e20f1c86ee3f4b386b350fe0d0 | |
| parent | 520b4bf91b9e4dcc7cf7a9a0bd1ed3785d6757b0 (diff) | |
build: Adjust README
Acked-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 19 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ Introduction ============ The SPICE Streaming Agent is a guest-side daemon which captures the -guest X.Org output, encodes it to H.264 using hardware encoding (NVIDIA-only at -the moment), and forwards the resulting stream to the host to be sent through -SPICE. +guest video output, encodes it to a video stream,and forwards the resulting +stream to the host to be sent through SPICE. The capture and encoding are done +through the use of plugins, so a variety of video format and capture/encoding +methods (hardware/software) can be used. For now, spice-streaming-agent only +provides software encoding to MJPEG. Virtual Machine Configuration @@ -39,14 +41,3 @@ Using QEMU [source,sh] -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=com.redhat.stream.0 -chardev spiceport,name=com.redhat.stream.0,id=charchannel1 - - -NVIDIA-specific Configuration -============================= - -In order to use NVIDIA hardware-accelerated encoding, you will need to -configure the virtual machine to use mdev/vfio. An NVIDIA card has to be listed -in lspci output on the guest. - -The guest also needs to have the NVIDIA proprietary drivers installed and in -use. |