Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
2012-Sep-24 11:56 UTC
100% Perfect Success in Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25099 VGA Passthrough with NVIDIA Quadro 6000 (Frank Lyon''s Xen VGA Passthrough Configuration Files)
Dear All, Frank Lyon (Singapore) engaged me to work on Xen VGA Passthrough for him. He started off contemplating VGA Passthrough using Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) but he couldn''t get VGA Passthrough to work with it. Then he engaged a tech guy from a software consultancy firm in Singapore but the tech guy he engaged also couldn''t get VGA Passthrough to work using Xen Cloud Platform. Finally Frank Lyon engaged me to work on Xen VGA Passthrough for him. I dropped XCP altogether because I have totally no experience with it at all. I finally got 100% perfect success in Xen VGA Passthrough with his NVIDIA Quadro 6000. Here are Frank Lyon''s hardware specifications: Server: HP ProLiant DL370G6 Processors: 2x Intel Xeon CPU X5650 @ 2.67 GHz (2 Processors detected, 12 total cores detected per processor) Harddisks: 4X 1TB SAS MDL 6G DP 7.2K Harddisks Memory: 48GB of memory Display adapter: NVIDIA Quadro 6000 Here are Frank Lyon''s software configuration: Host Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server CD HVM domU: Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 Pro 64-bit Xen Hypervisor version: 4.2-unstable Changeset 25099 Linux Dom0 Kernel: 3.5.4 (I compiled it from sources) Attached in this email are Xen VGA Passthrough configuration files and scripts I have configured for Frank Lyon''s Xen VGA Passthrough server. Reference guides/tutorials followed in setting up Frank Lyon''s Xen VGA Passthrough server (hosted on Xen Wiki): (1) http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Building_and_Installing_Xen_4.x_and_Linux_Kernel_3.x_on_Ubuntu_and_Debian_Linux (2) http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_to_Windows_8_with_Xen_4.2-unstable The above two are guides/tutorials/HowTo/documentation I have written for (1) building and installing Xen 4.x and Linux Kernel 3.x on Ubuntu and Debian Linux and (2) Xen VGA Passthrough. Dear Jean David Techer, Now I have 100% success in getting Xen VGA Passthrough to work in Frank Lyon''s Xen VGA Passthrough server, with Xen VGA Passthrough patches hosted at your personal website. The display adapter which was 100% successfully passed through in Frank Lyon''s example is a NVIDIA Quadro 6000. I still have no idea why I have PARTIAL (less than 100%) success with Xen VGA Passthrough with my own NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS VGA card. As I have told you before, there is a yellow exclamation mark with my NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS in Device Manager in Windows XP and Windows 8 HVM domUs. I am so totally astonished and elated and happy that I could get 100% success in Xen VGA Passthrough with Frank Lyon''s Xen VGA Passthrough server. The Xen VGA Passthrough patches hosted at your personal website definitely works. Thumbs up David Techer! There is ***ABSOLUTELY NO*** yellow exclamation mark with Frank Lyon''s NVIDIA Quadro 6000 in Device Manager in Windows 7 and Windows 8 HVM domUs. I really wondered what''s the problem with my case. I could get somebody else''s Xen VGA Passthrough to work but yet I could not get mine to work 100%. Perhaps I should get another NVIDIA vga card to try out VGA Passthrough. Dear All, Although I have 100% success in Xen VGA Passthrough in Frank Lyon''s case, it was done with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25099. I couldn''t get Xen VGA Passthrough to work with Xen 4.3-unstable. Perhaps the Xen developers could look into this problem? In addition, I cannot passthrough TWO NVIDIA Quadro 6000 to a single Windows 7 or Windows 8 HVM guest. Anybody knows how I could passthrough two GPUs to a single HVM? Windows 7 and Windows 8 HVM guests would go haywire with the 2nd NVIDIA Quadro 6000 plugged in. The 2nd NVIDIA Quadro 6000 needs to be unplugged. Anybody knows why? Please advise. Thank you very much for your kind attention. -- Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Singapore _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel