Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM Box ?

Emmett Culley emmett at webengineer.com
Tue May 4 20:17:46 UTC 2010


On 05/04/2010 12:30 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 12:12 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>> On 05/04/2010 09:05 AM, Jim wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone been successful installing Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM ?
>>>
>>> Did you have any difficulties or sticking points ?
>>>
>> Upgraded a winXP VM to win7 without a hitch.  I upgraded to 64 bit win7 on a 64 bit host (Fedora 12).
>>
>> I haven't tried an install from scratch, and probably won't.
>>
>> Emmett
>>
> Did you get any audio from Windows 7. I have not yet reloaded my Windows
> 7 (64-bit) under Virtualbox, but previously I was not able to get any
> sound from Windows 7 under KVM or Virtualbox where the sound from
> Windows XP worked fine. Probably need a driver.
> 
> 
I don't use sound as the VM is only used to test windoze only apps.

However, I just took a look and the win7 VM doesn't see any sound cards.  So no, I haven't gotten audio to work.



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