similar to: Re : General questions about VGA passthrough

I have a question regarding VGA passthrough. If I understood correctly, the only way to have VGA passthrough is hiding the VGA from the Dom0 and giving full control of it to one guest. This means, the guest should just take ownership of the device and start using it (and therefore take control of the screen, too), right? I read that one can dynamically hide PCI devices from the Dom0. What would

Hello list, Using the mainline 3.5-rc6 kernel and yesterday''s xen-unstable, I''m having trouble passing in some PCI devices. Everything else works smoothly. Attached are some of the relevant logs and configurations. I did notice from the qemu logs that all the problematic devices have "IRQ type = INTx" whereas those that are working have "IRQ type =

Hi, I''m doing VGA passthrough for an ATI (HD 6770) graphics card to a DomU Windows. The passthrough itself is working. However, everytime when I reboot the DomU Windows, the whole machine freezes. I see no error messages from Dom0 kernel or the xen qemu log (or perhaps I haven''t got the most verbose debugging turned on?). Though from what I can tell, the the freeze happens

Hello List, Has anyone performed VGA Passthrough with a Radeon 6990 card? Secondary to that, has anyone done a crossfire setup on an HVM DomU? I''d like to run Xen on top of my desktop and put Windows into a VM, shuffling my setup around a little bit, but I''d really like to get the full VGA BIOS support that passthrough offers. Thanks, Andrew Bobulsky

Hello list, Did an update to the latest AMD drivers (11-9_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl) and was pleasantly surprised to find that I can reboot my passthrough domU! Firstly, the reboot was triggered involuntarily shortly (20 seconds) AFTER the SUCCESSFUL driver update. The only thing logged was this: (XEN) io.c:194:d5 MMIO emulation failed @ 0010:fffff800036c7d00: 0f 28 04 10 0f 28

> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 01:07:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: komkon555 <komkon555@freenet.de> > Subject: Re: Re : Re : Re : [Xen-devel] Re: Patches for > VGA-Passthrough XEN 4.2 unstable > To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > Message-ID: <1315555670684-4785425.post@n5.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Weidong Han wrote: >

Oops Attached should by the domU configuration referenced, but missing from my last mail. -------------- next part -------------- # ========================================= # Windows 7 domU # ========================================= # Configure an HVM rather than PV guest builder = "hvm" # Guest name name = "windows7" # Enable Microsoft Hyper-V compatible PV #viridian = 1

How does vga passthrough of the primary graphics card work? And what is the current state of vga passthrough of a secondary graphics card? If I passthrough the primary graphics card does that leave dum0 headless and my monitor attached (via the passed through card) to the HVM domu? I am planning to build a computer that will support HVMs with vga passthrough, using the following: ASUS crossair

Hello, I configured xen with enabled passthrough primary VGA card (Intel Integrated graphic controller HD 3000) and audio controller (Intel HD audio) to hvm guest. I also installed GPLPV drivers to improve performance. And it works for Windows XP (x86) and Windows 7 (x86_64). But I get a BSOD, when I try to load a disk or network subsystem or start Windows 7 performance test. Steps to reproduce

Dear All, I have tried to apply VGA passthrough patches hosted at Jean David Techer''s website to Xen 4.3-unstable. However, I cannot get VGA passthrough to work with Xen 4.3-unstable. Are the VGA passthrough patches hosted at David Techer''s website incompatible with Xen 4.3-unstable? This is David Techer''s website:

Dear All, I have tried to apply VGA passthrough patches hosted at Jean David Techer''s website to Xen 4.3-unstable. However, I cannot get VGA passthrough to work with Xen 4.3-unstable. Are the VGA passthrough patches hosted at David Techer''s website incompatible with Xen 4.3-unstable? This is David Techer''s website:

I am having problems getting my 64-bit Debian Squeeze (Xen version 4.0, Linux Kernel 2.6.32) dom0 to pass a Gigabyte HD 5450 graphics card to an HVM 64-bit Arch Linux domU. I have two Gigabyte HD 5450 graphics cards connected to my Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 motherboard. I can pass the secondary card (the one the bios doesn’t show up on) to an HVM 32-bit Windows XP domU (I thought that would be the hard

I understand that VGA passthrough isn''t officially supported on paravirtualized VMs, but it will work with certain video cards. Does anybody have any information about which video cards/chipsets are/are not supported for paravirtualization, what the criteria for being supported/unsupported is etc.? I''m also interested in understanding the technical problems to getting VGA

Hi, I''m trying to build a (probably) secondary graphics passthrough install on an HP Z420. We don''t need earth-shattering performance. Unfortunately, the cards on the Xen tested list are going EOL and won''t be available from HP for the lifetime of the product we are building. HP have said that the approved graphics cards for the Z420 going forward are the nVidia

Hi, I was able to do VGA/PCI Passthrough on an i7-3770 integrated GPU HD4000 to a Windows 8 HVM. Xen 4.1.3 running on a Debian Wheezy (kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64 and 3.5-trunk) dom0, xm toolstack and pci-stub were used. Other PCI devices such as USB 2.0 controller and audio were also passed to the domU. The hardware used is the following: Intel Core i7-3770 CPU, Intel DQ77MK Motherboard with

Hi Alex, The first bit of advice that I was about to give was that you should have a look at a particular thread on the Arch Linux user forum. But as it turns out, the article that you found (which seems really well-written) already mentions that thread, and in fact even links to one of my comments on that thread, namely this comment: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1313007#p1313007

Hello, I would like to report to the group that I have been successful with VGA passthrough using the following configuration: Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 ASUS EAH5750 1GB GDDR5 video Fedora 13 XEN 4.0.1 Windows 7 64 bit HVM guest Xen was installed per Pasi''s Fedora 13 Xen 4.0 Tutorial found here: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial The tutorial was very helpful and many

I''m wondering if FLR really must be supported by the PCI card for PCI/VGA passthrough to work or if it will work anyway. I have read in the VTdHowTo that trying to pass through hardware without the FLR feature will result in an error. At the same time I read on a pdf document on the VMWare website (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_4_vmdirectpath_host.pdf) that:

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 22:59 -0400, Alex G.S. wrote: > GizmoChicken, > > Read that there's a problem with Nvidia GeForce GTX cards and both Xen and > KVM, like it's not on a Nvidia whitelist, I'm a bit concerned. From the > ArchLinux thread I've seen some success with Nvidia GeForce GTX cards, this > is confusing. The bit I read here was: > > " That

Dear Users, in my case, i want to passthrough a pci-e graphiccard to a hvm guest. In the bios i have to select whether the onboard graphic is used as primary vga output or the pci-e one. If i define the onboard one then the pci-e card gets unavailable in xen, furthermore lspci did not show it anymore. if i set the pci-e card as primary, it comes up fine in xen, but if i hide that card which is