<div dir="ltr">Hi Dylan<div><br></div><div>I have a w7 VM running under KVM. Installing the necessary virtio and spice drivers on W7 is not straightforward and gives me the occasional black screen.</div><div>I would agree with Jan et al - if you are only using it occasionally just use Virtualbox - it's straightforward and performance is good.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Paul</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 August 2013 08:59, Dylan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dylan@dylan.me.uk" target="_blank">dylan@dylan.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All<br>
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What are the pros and cons between KVM, XEN and Virtualbox for setting up either WinXP or Vista in a VM? The guest system would only be used occasionally for Windows-only applications (3D graphics editors)<br>
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Thanks for any comments<br>
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Dylan<br>
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