CentOS - Jan 2018 - best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms?

Thanks Nux for the follow up!

On 22/01/18 08:54, Nux! wrote:
> You'd need to run virt-manager GUI somehow to manage the VMs. If you
run Fedora already on another machine then you can just yum install it and use
it from there.
That's what I figured - I already run an XP and W7 virt machines as well 
as sometimes RemixOS just for fun on my everyday machine and thought I 
could remote control.
> You might run into a problem though with your Libreelec VM as you'd
need to enable GPU passthrough for it and for that you need Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi
enabled in the BIOS. If your laptop is old it may not have that feature.I
wondered about that - the laptop is VT-x, but not VT-d.  But, as I run
the above GUI machines on my laptop without VT-d, then shouldn't I be 
able to run Libreelec?  Or, is it that I will just need the server/host 
setup with a gui?  And, if that's the case, then perhaps I run Libreelec 
on the server/host and not as a VM and the rest as VM?
> Owncloud has been obsoleted by Nextcloud btw.
Can't keep up - getting old...

Many thanks
Morgan.

Running a VM with something graphical on top of something else graphical is one
thing.

What you want is to dedicate the GPU to the Libreelec VM, so it displays
directly to the screen (gpu) so it can properly use hardware acceleration and so
on, but you can't do that without VT-d/AMD-Vi afaik.

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www.nux.ro

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morgan Read" <mstuff at read.org.nz>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 18:49:58
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm
vms?
> Thanks Nux for the follow up!
> 
> On 22/01/18 08:54, Nux! wrote:
>> You'd need to run virt-manager GUI somehow to manage the VMs. If
you run Fedora
>> already on another machine then you can just yum install it and use it
from
>> there.
> That's what I figured - I already run an XP and W7 virt machines as
well
> as sometimes RemixOS just for fun on my everyday machine and thought I
> could remote control.
> 
>> You might run into a problem though with your Libreelec VM as you'd
need to
>> enable GPU passthrough for it and for that you need Intel VT-d or
AMD-Vi
>> enabled in the BIOS. If your laptop is old it may not have that
feature.I
>> wondered about that - the laptop is VT-x, but not VT-d.  But, as I run
> the above GUI machines on my laptop without VT-d, then shouldn't I be
> able to run Libreelec?  Or, is it that I will just need the server/host
> setup with a gui?  And, if that's the case, then perhaps I run
Libreelec
> on the server/host and not as a VM and the rest as VM?
> 
>> Owncloud has been obsoleted by Nextcloud btw.
> Can't keep up - getting old...
> 
> Many thanks
> Morgan.
> 
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Hmm, So - I guess the best I can hope for is running the host as a full 
workstation GUI with kodi installed - forget about Libreelec - and then 
running the rest of appliances as VMs headless?

Many thanks for helping clear my thoughts on this.
M

On 23/01/18 19:01, Nux! wrote:
> Running a VM with something graphical on top of something else graphical is
one thing.
> 
> What you want is to dedicate the GPU to the Libreelec VM, so it displays
directly to the screen (gpu) so it can properly use hardware acceleration and so
on, but you can't do that without VT-d/AMD-Vi afaik.
> 
> --
> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
> 
> Nux!
> www.nux.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Morgan Read" <mstuff at read.org.nz>
>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 18:49:58
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive
kvm	vms?
> 
>> Thanks Nux for the follow up!
>>
>> On 22/01/18 08:54, Nux! wrote:
>>> You'd need to run virt-manager GUI somehow to manage the VMs.
If you run Fedora
>>> already on another machine then you can just yum install it and use
it from
>>> there.
>> That's what I figured - I already run an XP and W7 virt machines as
well
>> as sometimes RemixOS just for fun on my everyday machine and thought I
>> could remote control.
>>
>>> You might run into a problem though with your Libreelec VM as
you'd need to
>>> enable GPU passthrough for it and for that you need Intel VT-d or
AMD-Vi
>>> enabled in the BIOS. If your laptop is old it may not have that
feature.I
>>> wondered about that - the laptop is VT-x, but not VT-d.  But, as I
run
>> the above GUI machines on my laptop without VT-d, then shouldn't I
be
>> able to run Libreelec?  Or, is it that I will just need the server/host
>> setup with a gui?  And, if that's the case, then perhaps I run
Libreelec
>> on the server/host and not as a VM and the rest as VM?
>>
>>> Owncloud has been obsoleted by Nextcloud btw.
>> Can't keep up - getting old...
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Morgan.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
>> CentOS at centos.org
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