[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 release planning proposal
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:57:59PM -0200, Martinx - ?$B%8%'!<%`%: wrote: > Hi Pasi! > Can you tell me if it will be possible to use Xen like this: > dom0 -> ATI GPU Passthrough as primary -> HVM domU with Catalyst -> Spice > -> Spice-Client ? > I do not want to use Spice "alone" and, I do not want to use my domU with > my ATI without SPICE... That makes sense? > Thanks! Afaik SPICE uses and requires the virtual QXL GPU for efficient operation, so it doesn't work with physical GPUs. -- Pasi > Thiago > > On 20 August 2012 16:14, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:46:59PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > Features and improvements not on this list are of course welcome at > > any time before the feature freeze. > > > > Any questions and feedback are welcome! > > > > Your 4.3 release coordinator, > > George Dunlap > > > > <snip> > > > > * xl USB pass-through for PV guests > > owner: ? > > Port the xend PV pass-through functionality to xl. > > > > xm/xend PVUSB works for both PV and HVM guests, so xl should support > PVUSB for both PV and HVM guests aswell. > James Harper's GPLPV drivers actually do have PVUSB frontend driver for > Windows. > > Also Suse's xenlinux forward-ported patches have PVUSB support in > unmodified_drivers for HVM guests. > > Another USB item: > > * xl support for USB device passthru using QEMU emulated USB for HVM > guests (no need for PVUSB drivers in the HVM guest). > This works today in xm/xend with qemu-traditional, but is limited to > USB 1.1, probably because > the old version of Qemu-dm-traditional which lacks USB 2.0/3.0. > So xl support for emulated USB device passthru for both qemu-upstream > and qemu-traditional. > > More wishlist items: > > * Nested hardware virtualization. Important for easier testing and > development of Xen (Xen-on-Xen), > and for running other hypervisors in Xen VMs. Interesting for labs, > POCs, etc. > > * VGA/GPU passthru support for AMD/NVIDIA; lots of patches on xen-devel > archives, > but noone has yet stepped up to clean up and get them merged. > Currently Intel gfx passthru patches are merged to Xen, but primary > ATI/NVIDIA require extra patches. > This is actually something that a LOT of users ask often, it's > discussed almost every day on ##xen on IRC. > I wonder if XenClient folks could help here? > > * Dom0 Keyboard/mouse sharing to HVM guests; mainly needed by VGA/GPU > passthru users. > Fujitsu guys posted some patches for this in 2010, and XenClient guys > in 2009 (iirc), > but nothing got further developed and merged to upstream Xen. > > * QXL virtual GPU support for SPICE. Someone was already developing > this, > and posted patches earlier during 4.2 development cycle to xen-devel. > Upstream Qemu includes QXL support. > > * PVSCSI support in XL. James Harper was (semi) interested in working > with this, > because he has a PVSCSI frontend driver in Windows GPLPV drivers, and > he's using PVSCSI for tape backups himself. > > * libvirt libxl driver improvements; support more Xen features. > Allows better using the Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS "default" > virtualization GUI also with Xen. > > Hopefully we'll find interested developers for these items :) > > -- Pasi > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > [2]Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [3]http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx > 2. mailto:Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 3. http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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