The reason I asked is that I run an ISP, it would be spiffy to have one machine that I can bring up multiple OS's fully functional to troubleshoot various issues customers have. Already have virtual machines for infrastructure but they are all Linux (CentOS or Scientific Linux).
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, SilverTip257 wrote:
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:16:52 -0500 From: SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows Direct-X and Virtualization
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 havedirect-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-virtual...
Maybe someone will speak up who has worked with Windows on KVM quite a bit more than I have.
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