[CentOS] Advice sought: Virtual Win7 on Centos 6.2

Sat Jan 7 10:24:26 UTC 2012
Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche at gmx.net>

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:28:06PM -0500, Digimer wrote:
> On 01/06/2012 05:17 PM, david wrote:
> > Folks
> > 
> > I have a new laptop running Centos 6.2 64-bit.  I'd like to put a 
> > virtual machine running Windows 7 (licensed), with full audio/video 
> > functions, and good response.  Which virtual system would you 
> > recommend?  I can think of KVM, or VirtualBox, or ...?
> > 
> > The "good response" requirement pretty much excludes a web-style 
> > video presentation.
> > 
> > Opinions solicited.
> > 
> > David Kurn
> 
> I have great performance with KVM running windows guests using the
> virtio storage drivers. Below is how I do it (on clusters, normally, but
> should be easy to adapt for a single-machine host):
> 
> https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial#Provisioning_vm0004-ms

The virtio drivers are not really needed, the performance even without them
is also pretty good.

best regards,

Florian La Roche