Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] ïïï Xen VGA Passthrough - GTX 680 successfully ïhard-moded to GRID K2

[David TECHER <davidtecher@xxxxxxxx>]

There is one exception for the boot-up animation if you have a domU where ATI card was installed.

I have a domU Win 7 64 which I use for my previous ATI tests.

After removing my ATI card and putting my GTX 680 back in  this domU I remove AMD driver and I installed NVIDIA driver.

When this domU is starting up the boot-up animation appears only in the VNC console. After that the animation is "frozen" on boot-up animation  in VNC and the Windows screen (login screen) appears in my physical monitor.

This domU above is a different domU than the 2 other domUs (Win XP 64 and Win 7 64) freshly installed.

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De : Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
à: David TECHER <davidtecher@xxxxxxxx>
Cc : xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx>; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Envoyà le : Mercredi 25 septembre 2013 18h07
Objet : Re: [Xen-users] ïïï[Xen-devel] Xen VGA Passthrough - GTX 680 successfully ïhard-moded to GRID K2

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:02:59 +0100 (BST), David TECHER
<davidtecher@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I _may_ be wrong here, but doesn't the gfx_passthru=1 get ignored
>  >in that case? If it was working, the BIOS level and bootup output
>  >should come up on the passthru GPU, should it not? I guess
>  >gfx_passthru=1 just disables the emulated Cirrus VGA, but in that
>  >case the boot-up animation shouldn't show up on VNC.
>
>>So I'm not sure what is going on in this case.
>
> Oh No you're right. I am mistaken (Apologies!). The boot-up animation
> doesn't appear on the VNC console.
>
> I tested it an re-checked it on both XP 64 and Win 7 64.

Right. And since you aren't side-loading the GPU BIOS, I would guess
the boot-up animation doesn't appear at all. It runs headless right
up to the point where the GPU driver loads in Windows.

Gordan

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