[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Looking for tips: building a workstation around Xen and GPU pass-through
2011/5/17 "Mgr. Åimon TÃth" <toth@xxxxxxxxxx>: > I'm building my new home machine right now and as usual this will be a > heavily overloaded workstation that will serve as development and > testing machine, file server and game console (plus I'm adding TV cards > and multimedia streaming for my home network). > > Since these use cases work against each other (file server is > unavailable when the machine is used as game console), I'm heavily > considering the use of Xen to provide everything at once. Performance > shouldn't be an issue in general, but the game console use case > definitely requires direct access to a GPU. > Some information here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough > Therefore I have several questions: > > - is this feasible in general? > - is the GPU passthrough usable enough with non-server GPUs? > - when buying, what technologies should I look for on the motherboard > Â(most likely choosing Gigabyte + Intel CPU again) > - is there some virtualization technology creeping on the horizon that > Âis worth waiting for? > - how good is Xen at dividing resources? > Â- the file-server and multimedia-streaming portion of the workstation > Â Âhas to work even if the game console part is eating 100% of its > Â Âresources and vice-versa > - the system will run on top of 8 disks with software Raid6 and LVM, > Âshould I buy a dedicated disk for the game console portion of > Âthe system? > Â- I have read about some problem with Xen and I/O performance > > Any input will be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Mgr. Simon Toth > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://runningxen.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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