Hi Is VGA passthrough with an nvidia optimus laptop remotely feasible? For those who don''t know, nvidia optimus is two hardware cards, connected to the same display. One sandy bridge setup (I use the intel driver for this), and one nvidia card. I have a laptop with this setup, and usually I''m using only the intel card. I then use acpi_call to power down the nvidia card. To use this optimus setup on linux I use bumblebee ( https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee) which sets up a separate X server to run the nvidia card. Then use virtualgl to show the image on the current (intel sandy bridge) run X server. Will it be possible for me to get VGA passthrough running? I can have it running with a separate output (hdmi/vga, hopefully one of them is connected directly to the nvidia card, and doesn''t use any hacks with the intel card to work) if it will be needed (and I figure it will, as two cards are here trying to use the same display). Has anyone looked into this? Best regards Anders -- Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning. - http://code.google.com/p/aagaande/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:08:56PM +0200, Anders Aagaard wrote:> Hi > Is VGA passthrough with an nvidia optimus laptop remotely feasible? For > those who don''t know, nvidia optimus is two hardware cards, connected to > the same display. One sandy bridge setup (I use the intel driver for > this), and one nvidia card. I have a laptop with this setup, and usually > I''m using only the intel card. I then use acpi_call to power down the > nvidia card. > To use this optimus setup on linux I use bumblebee > ([1]https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee) which sets up a separate X server > to run the nvidia card. Then use virtualgl to show the image on the > current (intel sandy bridge) run X server. > Will it be possible for me to get VGA passthrough running? I can have it > running with a separate output (hdmi/vga, hopefully one of them is > connected directly to the nvidia card, and doesn''t use any hacks with the > intel card to work) if it will be needed (and I figure it will, as two > cards are here trying to use the same display). > Has anyone looked into this?Hello, Which nvidia card is that? Nvidia officially supports VGA passthrough only with the pro-cards (Quadro), so the consumer-cards require some more hacks.. (=custom patching). -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Hi The card is a Geforce GT 555M. And since it''s an optimus card, I imagine it''ll require a whole lot of custom hacks ;) Best regards Anders Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning. - http://code.google.com/p/aagaande/ On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:08:56PM +0200, Anders Aagaard wrote: > > Hi > > Is VGA passthrough with an nvidia optimus laptop remotely feasible? > For > > those who don''t know, nvidia optimus is two hardware cards, connected > to > > the same display. One sandy bridge setup (I use the intel driver for > > this), and one nvidia card. I have a laptop with this setup, and > usually > > I''m using only the intel card. I then use acpi_call to power down the > > nvidia card. > > To use this optimus setup on linux I use bumblebee > > ([1]https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee) which sets up a separate X > server > > to run the nvidia card. Then use virtualgl to show the image on the > > current (intel sandy bridge) run X server. > > Will it be possible for me to get VGA passthrough running? I can have > it > > running with a separate output (hdmi/vga, hopefully one of them is > > connected directly to the nvidia card, and doesn''t use any hacks with > the > > intel card to work) if it will be needed (and I figure it will, as two > > cards are here trying to use the same display). > > Has anyone looked into this? > > Hello, > > Which nvidia card is that? > > Nvidia officially supports VGA passthrough only with the pro-cards > (Quadro), > so the consumer-cards require some more hacks.. (=custom patching). > > -- Pasi > >_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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