Xen users - Mar 2014 - VGA passthrough with Xen 4.3 and xl toolstack - performance degradation resolved?

Hello,

Hope you can help. A while ago users noted performance degradation or dom0
stability issues when shuting down a HVM guest that uses VGA passthrough (e.g.
Windows 7), and booting up the guest again. A workaround was to eject the
graphics card within Windows, before shutting down the guest. This process is
described here: http://blog.ktz.me/?p=219.

I tried to follow those instructions, but my Windows 7 guest wouldn't boot
again after installing the startup and shutdown scripts. Manual eject/insert of
the graphics card running the "logon" script worked fine, however
(i.e. not a problem with incorrect PCI device ID).

Following this failure and after removing the startup/shutdown scripts, I booted
and shutdown the Windows guest repeatedly, each time running a Unigine benchmark
to test graphics performance. Surprise: everything works just fine.

Now the question: I'm using a Nvidia Quadro 2000 card and I was wondering if
this guest reboot issue was only related to AMD graphics cards?

Or has this bug been fixed in Xen 4.3? I like to know.

Thanks in advance.

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