[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen VGA Passthrough - GTX 680 successfully hard-moded to GRID K2
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 07:53:12PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 09/23/2013 06:28 PM, David TECHER wrote: > >Hi Gordan, > > > >I wanted to let you know that today I decided to have a try for my GTX > >680. Gigabite GTX 680 2048 MB GDDR5. > > > >I know that this particular card could be hard-moded to GRID K2 so VGA > >passthrough could work. > > FYI, GTX680 modified to a K5000 also works fine for VGA passthrough. I > haven't noticed any difference in the functionality. > > >Following instructions found on > >http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/hacking-nvidia-cards-into-their-professional-counterparts/420/ > >I just removed two resistors. > > Just out of interest - are your video outputs working correctly? Can > you get DL-DVI output or DP output without problems? I find that on > bare metal, it works fine, but in a Xen VM, SL-DVI works, but DL-DVI > doesn't. DP also works on bare metal, but doesn't work at all domU. > > As far as I can tell, nobody has had the same issue before. Then > again, AFAIK, nobody else is running this setup with an XP64 domU, > which is why I am particularly interested to hear if you are seeing > the same issue (you mentioned you also run XP64). > > >I did the test on another VM (Windows 7 64 bits). I was able to play > >games, shutdown the VM, restart the VM without restarting the dom0. > > > >I am very impressed. Restarting domU (Linux or Windows) without > >restarting the dom0 is very impressive. > > Indeed. As I have mentioned a number of times before, a faux-Quadro > setup is far, far superior to an ATI setup when it comes to VGA > passthrough. > > And I wouldn't say it's impressive per se - it is normal and > expected. OTOH, having to reboot dom0 when rebooting domU is utterly > broken and unfit for purpose. I am a bit late to this part - was there an serial output or some other way to figure out why dom0 rebooted? > > Gordan > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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