<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Robert Dinse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nanook@eskimo.com" target="_blank">nanook@eskimo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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The reason I asked is that I run an ISP, it would be spiffy to have one<br>
machine that I can bring up multiple OS's fully functional to troubleshoot<br>
various issues customers have. Already have virtual machines for<br>
infrastructure but they are all Linux (CentOS or Scientific Linux).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>This is pretty much the reason I dabbled with Windows on KVM -- for our tech support guys.</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>If I find any definitive information I'll share it. I hope one of us finds a solution!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, SilverTip257 wrote:<br>
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> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:16:52 -0500<br>
> From: SilverTip257 <<a href="mailto:silvertip257@gmail.com">silvertip257@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS<br>
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> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <<a href="mailto:centos-virt@centos.org">centos-virt@centos.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows Direct-X and Virtualization<br>
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> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Robert Dinse <<a href="mailto:nanook@eskimo.com">nanook@eskimo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ><br>
> > Is there anyway to run a Windows machine as a virtual machine and have<br>
> > direct-X display on the host console in full screen mode? If anyone has<br>
> > this<br>
> > working can you tell me what hardware, drivers, etc you are using? Thank<br>
> > you.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> There's a driver other than the default video driver (Cirrus? I think) that<br>
> is supposed to be quicker for Windows (I can't seem to find the materials I<br>
> read months ago). In testing I found that this driver wouldn't support<br>
> higher resolutions, so I abandoned it. I don't run Windows VMs in<br>
> production, so I've not experimented much with it in KVM.<br>
><br>
> What I'm reading is that Direct-X support is iffy. [0] [1]<br>
><br>
> [0] <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280013" target="_blank">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280013</a><br>
> [1]<br>
> <a href="http://penguininside.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-3d-acceleration-on-virtualbox.html" target="_blank">http://penguininside.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-3d-acceleration-on-virtualbox.html</a><br>
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> Maybe someone will speak up who has worked with Windows on KVM quite a bit<br>
> more than I have.<br>
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