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On 7 October 2010 12:03, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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 the consumer cards I've looked at are either somewhat out of date 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 I'm inclined to think this page is out of date as I've heard mention 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 Yep, that wiki page is unfortunately very out-of-date.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)? > I use normal device pass throught, I forgot to mentioned that was passing it through as a secondary display adapter so no need to do any fancy VGA tweak for that. I used SLE 2.6.32 xen as dom0 + XCI patch queue. I used pci back directly to hide the device from dom0 after boot (echo the gpu BDF into sysfs). Jean _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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