[CentOS] Advice sought: Virtual Win7 on Centos 6.2

Lucian lucian at lastdot.org
Sat Jan 7 10:05:44 UTC 2012


On 6 January 2012 22:28, Digimer <linux at alteeve.com> 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
>

+1 for KVM/virt-manager/virtio. I need to look further into Spice, but
now I use rdesktop which gives me file sharing and sound.



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