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
    <centos-virt@centos.org>
> 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 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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