Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM Box ?

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:40 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 01:17 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >    
> 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.

Running VMware Workstation 7.1 (Yes - that's correct! It was just
released) on F13B (with current patches). My system is a Lenovo T400
with 4GB RAM.

Installed flawlessly and runs Windows 7 (with 2 vCPUs and 2GB RAM
allocated) with no issues at all - including very smooth sound. Now, if
they would fix USB support so that it actually worked with most new
devices we would be golden!

On vBox, you will need to install a driver (I forget which one) in
addition to the vBox extensions to get sound. It's in the vBox user
guide though.

I doubt you'll get smooth sound from KVM yet, if you get sound at all.

Cheers,

Chris

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