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<div>Thank you for your email. I tried Spice but realized that the VM has to recognize the video adapter to work with the program I need run. It uses Unity Web Player which requires a better video card than the Standard VGA Adapter. Ultimately the tests
will be run without using a viewer from one VM to another (eggPlant). You said that you wouldn't mess with the PCI Passthrough. I wonder if anyone has tried and got it to work. <br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ProxMox Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PVE-User] problem adding a graphics driver<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 March 2015 at 09:05, David Rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Rice@imaginelearning.com" target="_blank">David.Rice@imaginelearning.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:13.3333px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">When I look at the Display Adapters installed in the Windows 7 VM it says I have:</div>
<div style="font-size:13.3333px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Standard VGA Graphics Adapter</div>
<div style="font-size:13.3333px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">VNC Mirror Driver</div>
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<div style="font-size:13.3333px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">When I try to update the Display driver(<a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24329/Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-7-8-8-1-64-bit" target="_blank">https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24329/Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-7-8-8-1-64-bit</a>)
<span style="font-size:13.3333px">first to Intel HD Graphics 4600 it gives me the following error:</span></div>
<div style="font-size:13.3333px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Unless you are using PCI passthrough (a different subject altogether and quite tricky), then your VM's virtual hardware is quite unrelated to the physical hardware it is running on.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">By default its just a simple emulated VGA card. If you want ok video performance that scales to decent resolutions then you need to use the Spice Virtual Hardware and drivers.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Shut the VM down<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">From the Proxmox Web InterfaceI:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Edit its Display in the Hardware Tab<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Set it to SPICE (Qxl)<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Start the VM<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">In the VM itself, install the Spice Guest Tools<br>
- <a href="http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe" target="_blank">
http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Reboot VM is Required<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">To *view* the VM's console, use the spice remote-viewer. That depends on what client system you are using to view the VM. For windows use the virt-viewer MSI available here:<br>
- <a href="http://virt-manager.org/download/" target="_blank">http://virt-manager.org/download/</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">ignore the virt-manager stuff.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Remote Viewer and SPICE support nice things like dynamic resizing of the VM console. USB devices can be passed trhough.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Caveats:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- You'll never get game quality performance via spice, for that you'll probably need to do PCI passthrough of the host video card. Personally I wouldn't bother with that.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">An alternative to using SPICE onto a windows vm is to just use remote desktop (RDP), that works very well, but you do need to know the hostname/ip address of the VM.<br clear="all">
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