Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM Box ?

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 05/04/2010 01:17 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 12:30 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> On 05/04/2010 12:12 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
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>>> On 05/04/2010 09:05 AM, Jim wrote:
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>>>> Has anyone been successful installing Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM ?
>>>>
>>>> Did you have any difficulties or sticking points ?
>>>>
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>>> 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
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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> 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.
>
>    
I have Windows 7 running as a VM under VMware on F12.  I did a from 
scratch install of Win7 Ultimate and had no problems.  The Win 7 network 
is bridged to my wireless network and everything works just fine.  The 
only issues I have encountered are related to performance.  When I run 
my Win7 VM on my F12 box it tends to hog memory causing things to run 
slower than if I wasn't running my Win7 VM.  I have 2Gb of memory on my 
system and I have 1Gb of RAM allocated to my Win7 VM.  Things would 
probably run better with more memory.

Paolo