Re: [Xen-devel] XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters up to date?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:52:09AM +0100, Jean Guyader wrote:
> On 7 October 2010 11:49, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:26:15AM +0100, Jean Guyader wrote:
> >> On 7 October 2010 08:57, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 01:06:31AM -0400, Eric Stein wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I've been looking to virtualize a Win7 guest and a Gentoo Linux guest
> >> >> side by side, each having access to one video card.  However, most of
> >> >> the consumer cards I've looked at are either somewhat out of date
> >> >> (Nvidia 8800 GTS) or not listed on the wiki page for VGA passthrough:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters
> >> >>
> >> >> Based on my reading of the pages around VTd and IOMMU, I should be able
> >> >> to use the patches to accomplish my goal if I choose a card that works
> >> >> with Xen (or use one of the workarounds, for instance vBAR=pBAR).
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm inclined to think this page is out of date as I've heard mention
> >> >> that various Intel IGD onboard cards have support... is there a
> >> >> different resource I should be looking to to determine which cards I
> >> >> should consider buying?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Yep, that wiki page is unfortunately very out-of-date.
> >> > If you know a list of tested adapters I can add them to the wiki.
> >> >
> >>
> >> ATI HD4550, ATI HD5750 work fine with the latest catalyst driver (10-9).
> >>
> >
> > Could you please tell more about the hardware, and also software versions 
> > used.
> > See the wiki page for details.
> >
> 
> I tried on win7 32b, haven't tried XP. The hardware was an Ibex Peak Ibex.
> The xen version was xen 3.4-testing.
> 

What patches did you apply? VGA passthru was first introduced in Xen 4.0,
it wasn't in Xen 3.4. Or has it been added recently? 

Also, what dom0 kernel did you use? 
What grub settings (for device hiding etc)? 

-- Pasi


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