I'm running qemu-kvm version 2.0.0-3 on Fedora 20, spice server version 0.12.4-3. The spice user manual states that I can specify the type of rendering to be done by the client by providing: renderer=<oglpbuf+oglpixmap+cairo> However, when I invoke qemu-kvm with the following option: -spice port=5900,addr=0.0.0.0,disable-ticketing,seamless- migration=on,renderer=oglpbuf+oglpixmap+cairo I get "Invalid parameter 'renderer’".
I know OpenGL on the client isn’t getting used at all.  It seems to be defaulting to cairo (which means slow).
Phil Allred