List, I have set up a XEN hypervisor (XENCloud Platform 1.5 beta) with a RedHat 6.1 Linux HVM guest. The guest should run an OpenGL application which uses the GPU extensively, I need the XEN VGA Passthrough option in order to run this application normally. I read the arcticles on the Xen-Wiki about Xen VGA Passthrough support but I am still confused on how to configure the VGA passthrough. My questions are: Is the required configuration with the VGA passthrough possible? and How can I configure the Xen Hypervisor thanks, Rob Hardware: Supermicro X8DTH MB with 2 intel Xeon E5620 CPU''s (quad core), 24 GB memory and 1 Nvidia Quadro 2000 video card Software: Dom0: XENCloud Platform 1.5 beta and DomU: RedHat 6.1 EL Server Rob Linschoten E-mail: rob.linschoten@nl.thalesgroup.com<mailto:rob.linschoten@nl.thalesgroup.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender and delete it. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of this email or its attachment(s) is forbidden. Thales Nederland BV will not accept liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachment(s). Thales Nederland BV is seated in Hengelo and is registered at the Chamber of Commerce under number 06061578. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
On 20 April 2012 12:16, LINSCHOTEN Rob <rob.linschoten@nl.thalesgroup.com> wrote:> > List, > > > > I have set up a XEN hypervisor (XENCloud Platform 1.5 beta) with a RedHat > 6.1 Linux HVM guest. The guest should run an OpenGL application which uses > the GPU extensively, I need the XEN VGA Passthrough option in order > > to run this application normally. I read the arcticles on the Xen-Wiki > about Xen VGA Passthrough support but I am still confused on how to > configure the VGA passthrough. > > > > My questions are: Is the required configuration with the VGA passthrough > possible? and How can I configure the Xen HypervisorHi Rob, did you already read this? http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo -- Flavio
Flavio, thanks for your response, yes I had read the http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo but not in so many detail. After rereading carefully I got the VGA pass-through functioning but I do not know if it is correctly working, the HVM guest crashes during boot time. I post the screen output of the crash when I am able to record it (looks like a memory map dump) Rob -----Original Message----- From: Flavio [mailto:fbcyborg@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2012 19:11 To: LINSCHOTEN Rob Cc: xen-users@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VGA Passthrough for a HVM linux guest On 20 April 2012 12:16, LINSCHOTEN Rob <rob.linschoten@nl.thalesgroup.com> wrote:> > List, > > > > I have set up a XEN hypervisor (XENCloud Platform 1.5 beta) with a > RedHat > 6.1 Linux HVM guest. The guest should run an OpenGL application which > uses the GPU extensively, I need the XEN VGA Passthrough option in > order > > to run this application normally. I read the arcticles on the Xen-Wiki > about Xen VGA Passthrough support but I am still confused on how to > configure the VGA passthrough. > > > > My questions are: Is the required configuration with the VGA > passthrough possible? and How can I configure the Xen HypervisorHi Rob, did you already read this? http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo -- Flavio