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Re: [Xen-users] [Xen-devel] [REQUEST] Request for Xen Users to Attempt Jean David Techer's Xen 4.2-unstable VGA Passthrough Documentation
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:29:01PM -0400, Casey DeLorme wrote:
> David,
> XenServer VGA Passthrough requires a paid/licensed copy, which costs
> $2500, a bit out of my price range for experimentation. Important to note
> that the feature is not a part of the 30-day trial license.
>
Afaik XenServer only supports GPU passthru with certain "pro" GPUs - not
consumer models.
> However, Citrix recently visited my college and I was able to preview
> hardware access on a laptop one of the employees had, where they swapped
> between Ubuntu and Windows with a hotkey, and various hardware components
> including onboard GPU and the WebCam were accessible.
>
And here you're talking about XenClient, which is a totally separate product
for laptops.
XenClient does a lot of tricks to share the (consumer) GPU between VMs,
including the V4V framework to copy GPU data between VMs.
-- Pasi
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