<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 November 2011 17:35, James Courtier-Dutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.dutton@gmail.com">james.dutton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I want to have a PC for a Desktop, but the Desktop display being that<br>
of a virtual machine in kvm.<br>
I tried it, but the speed of the Desktop display was too slow for videos etc.<br>
I want to do it this way so that I can use the dom0 so that I can ssh<br>
into it, and reboot the VM.<br>
Has anyone worked out how to get the video display to perform quickly in a VM?<br>
<br>
Kind Regards<br>
<br>
James<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div>Hi James</div><div><br></div><div>The only way to improve guest video performance in kvm is to use SPICE and the QXL video drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>I have just got this working on Ubuntu 11.10 with a W7 guest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can't say whether it has improved performance - the W7 performance assessment still rates graphics with a score of 1.0 however</div><div>it certainly seems quicker. Windows Media Player plays movies with very little pixellation or stutter but that is subjective.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This link details the procedure <a href="http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/set-up-spice-gtk-0-7-on-ubuntu-11-10/">http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/set-up-spice-gtk-0-7-on-ubuntu-11-10/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe that installation of SPICE on Fedora is easier but have not tried it myself.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Tel: +44 79 8532 7353<div>LinkedIn: <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hewlett/0/629/9b4" target="_blank">http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hewlett/0/629/9b4</a></div>
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