Right now, I'm using the QXL driver, but I saw a Xen and a virtio video driver as selections on the virtual machine manager. I feel like I can safely dismiss the cirrus, vga and vmvga drivers. Am I using the optimal software driver? I won't be able to pursue a PCI passthrough setup for another several months.
Virtio Video Driver Windows 7
- QXL is the video driver for the SPICE protocol. If you use the gui program virt-manager, it uses SPICE to display the guest by default. But you can change that to VNC, for example.
- Latest VirtIO drivers for Windows from Fedora. Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms. Drivers should be signed for Windows 64bit platforms. Here are some links how to self sign and install self signed drivers: Installing Test-Signed Driver Packages; How to Release-Sign File System Drivers.
So, my real goal is more to have a better screen sharing experience in SfB. The backstory is that Skype for Business uses video-based screen sharing. I think what's happening is that it's detecting a sub-optimal video card and ratcheting down the resolution in response.
Virtio-win-stable - This repository provides builds of virtio-win that roughly correlate to what was shipped with the most recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, meaning these builds have undergone testing and are considered stable. This repo is enabled by default. Virtio-win-latest - This repository provides the latest driver builds.