Yes -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Morgan Read" <mstuff at read.org.nz> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 23:30:57 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms? > Hmm, So - I guess the best I can hope for is running the host as a full > workstation GUI with kodi installed - forget about Libreelec - and then > running the rest of appliances as VMs headless? > > Many thanks for helping clear my thoughts on this. > M > > On 23/01/18 19:01, Nux! wrote: >> Running a VM with something graphical on top of something else graphical is one >> thing. >> >> What you want is to dedicate the GPU to the Libreelec VM, so it displays >> directly to the screen (gpu) so it can properly use hardware acceleration and >> so on, but you can't do that without VT-d/AMD-Vi afaik. >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Morgan Read" <mstuff at read.org.nz> >>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >>> Sent: Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 18:49:58 >>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms? >> >>> Thanks Nux for the follow up! >>> >>> On 22/01/18 08:54, Nux! wrote: >>>> You'd need to run virt-manager GUI somehow to manage the VMs. If you run Fedora >>>> already on another machine then you can just yum install it and use it from >>>> there. >>> That's what I figured - I already run an XP and W7 virt machines as well >>> as sometimes RemixOS just for fun on my everyday machine and thought I >>> could remote control. >>> >>>> You might run into a problem though with your Libreelec VM as you'd need to >>>> enable GPU passthrough for it and for that you need Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi >>>> enabled in the BIOS. If your laptop is old it may not have that feature.I >>>> wondered about that - the laptop is VT-x, but not VT-d. But, as I run >>> the above GUI machines on my laptop without VT-d, then shouldn't I be >>> able to run Libreelec? Or, is it that I will just need the server/host >>> setup with a gui? And, if that's the case, then perhaps I run Libreelec >>> on the server/host and not as a VM and the rest as VM? >>> >>>> Owncloud has been obsoleted by Nextcloud btw. >>> Can't keep up - getting old... >>> >>> Many thanks >>> Morgan. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos