From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: headless embedde linux Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:08:57 -0600 Message-ID: <498B6379.6040603@messageone.com> References: <498AF1BE.9040002@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kheinz57@gmx.de To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59638 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752580AbZBEWJP (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:09:15 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCPG-0001EB-Fm for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:10 +0000 Received: from rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com ([71.41.149.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:10 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <498AF1BE.9040002@gmx.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: heinz wrote: > This kernel does support kvm and the prement patch to make it pretty > good for real time things. > A kvm virtual machine is running for example windows xp with some WPF > gui. That would be a nice solution, > and for many problems - including those windows gui guys needing real > time as well. I can't comment on suitability for real-time work, but as a built-to-purpose embedded Linux distro that runs guests through KVM for remote use, you might find oVirt [http://ovirt.org/] interesting. > I a don't touch any graphic card with the linux stuff, would it be > possible to directly access from within the guest os? PCI passthrough support for video cards is a frequently asked about here, but every status report I've seen has been to the effect that it probably shouldn't be expected for a while.