Hardware Virtualization with KVM & Windows

Alex Katebi alex.katebi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 21:30:32 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Alex Katebi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I am planning to create a Windows-XP virtual guest for my son on my
> Intel
> > Quad machine. He wants to play the WoW video game on it. I am going to
> use
> > virt-install & KVM to create the virtual guest machine. In order to run
> WoW,
> > one needs a pretty good video card, and I have that. It is a Nvidia 9500
> GT
> > with 1 gig mem. How can I create the guest OS to use the hardware video
> card
> > instead of a cheap virtual one? Any comments are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > -Alex
> >
> >
>
> You should be able to install the video card driver in the guest OS just
> as if XP was the only system on that hardware. I've never had trouble
> with that before.
>
> That is great! I will do that.
Thanks,
-Alex


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