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. > > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- > Eskimo North Linux Friendly Internet Access, Shell Accounts, and Hosting. > Knowledgeable human assistance, not telephone trees or script readers. > See our web site: http://www.eskimo.com/ (206) 812-0051 or (800) 246-6874 > . > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 // -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20130201/0b6a3a14/attachment-0006.html>