[CentOS-virt] Windows Direct-X and Virtualization

[SilverTip257]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:

>
>      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).
>

This is pretty much the reason I dabbled with Windows on KVM -- for our
tech support guys.

If I find any definitive information I'll share it.  I hope one of us finds
a solution!


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> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, SilverTip257 wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:16:52 -0500
> > From: SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
>     <centos-virt at centos.org>
> > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <
> centos-virt at centos.org>
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows Direct-X and Virtualization
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at 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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