Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4 VGA Passthrough - Keyboard/Mouse?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:45:03AM -0600, Nick Couchman wrote:
> > 
> > I just added your IGD model info to:
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough
> > 
> > Feel free to tell how it goes with the ATI adapter. There has been extra 
> > patches
> > floating on the xen-devel list for some other troublesome adapters.
> > 
> > Although it might just work with ATI aswell, who knows :)
> > 
> 
> Well, the initial attempts with an Nvidia card aren't quite so successful - 
> the domain tries to start, but stalls at some point - hard to tell where.  I 
> get messages in the qemu-dm log file that say that the real physical device 
> 01:00.0 (the PCI slot of the add-in video card) has been successfully 
> registered, but then it kind of stalls and doesn't go any further than that.  
> I need to make sure I have the actual 4.0 release and not one of the RCs (I'm 
> using some pre-built RPMs for openSuSE), so perhaps that will help.
> 

Also keep in mind many Nvidia cards will require extra/custom patches.. 
See the XenVGAPassthrough wiki page for some links, and xen-devel archives for 
discussions and more patches..

I think some of the threads has instructions what you need to do with Nvidia
to get it working.

Please let us know how it goes..

-- Pasi


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