[CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms?

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----- 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.
>> 
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>> ----- 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.
>>>
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