I am planning to start using xen to run XP on a pentiumD system with VT and would like some advice, how does xen handel the graphics drivers from the guest OS? does everything just get passed down to xen or what? As this is for a desktop system it will need to have decent 3d performance on the guest OS.. will it work well with xen? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Monday 20 February 2006 14:04, variant integrity wrote:> I am planning to start using xen to run XP on a pentiumD system with > VT and would like some advice, how does xen handel the graphics > drivers from the guest OS? does everything just get passed down to xen > or what? As this is for a desktop system it will need to have decent > 3d performance on the guest OS.. will it work well with xen?the windows guest will see a virtual, emulated SVGA card, which is backed in dom0 by the qemu device emulator. So, there''ll be no acceleration, but it should be fast enough for administrative tasks. Usually that should be no problem if you run only network services in your windows guest, but as a desktop replacement, it definitly won''t be fast enough. For desktop usage, you might be better off runing only windows directly on your hardware, and have linux run as guest on there. (coLinux, vmware player, ...) (Or, of course, the other way round if you use linux more often) /Ernst _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:18:57 +0100 Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xebec.de> wrote:> the windows guest will see a virtual, emulated SVGA card, which is backed in > dom0 by the qemu device emulator. > So, there''ll be no acceleration, but it should be fast enough for > administrative tasks. > > Usually that should be no problem if you run only network services in your > windows guest, but as a desktop replacement, it definitly won''t be fast > enough.How about using an rdesktop client from within Linux to access the Windows GUI? It would still depend on what you were going to run under Windows but perhaps this would give you a nippier interface. Mat _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users