Re: Windows Direct-X and Virtualization

[SilverTip257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

     The reason I asked is that I run an ISP, it would be spiffy to have one
machine that I can bring up multiple OS's fully functional to troubleshoot
various issues customers have.  Already have virtual machines for
infrastructure but they are all Linux (CentOS or Scientific Linux).

This is pretty much the reason I dabbled with Windows on KVM -- for our tech support guys.

If I find any definitive information I'll share it.  I hope one of us finds a solution!

 

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, SilverTip257 wrote:

> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:16:52 -0500
> From: SilverTip257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
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> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Windows Direct-X and Virtualization

>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
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