On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com> wrote:

Is there anyway to run a Windows machine as a virtual machine and have
direct-X display on the host console in full screen mode? If anyone has this
working can you tell me what hardware, drivers, etc you are using? Thank you.

There's a driver other than the default video driver (Cirrus? I think) that is supposed to be quicker for Windows (I can't seem to find the materials I read months ago). In testing I found that this driver wouldn't support higher resolutions, so I abandoned it. I don't run Windows VMs in production, so I've not experimented much with it in KVM.

What I'm reading is that Direct-X support is iffy. [0] [1]

[0] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280013

[1] http://penguininside.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-3d-acceleration-on-virtualbox.html

Maybe someone will speak up who has worked with Windows on KVM quite a bit more than I have.

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