Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [XCI] result of pci vga passthrough

[Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

XCI support pass through as a primary display adpater, the patch are
not into xen unstable.
For nvidia graphic card as a seconday it shouldn't make any different
because nvidia only works as secondary.

Jean

2009/4/15 Tim Moore <timothy.moore@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> XCI is supposed to provide more rounded support as it seems that most 
> development of vendor workarounds are in XCI.
>
> Not official answer, maybe Xen developers can give a better steer?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jun Koi [mailto:junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 April 2009 11:32
> To: Tim Moore
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [XCI] result of pci vga passthrough
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Tim Moore <timothy.moore@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Stefano,
>>
>> Please find attached, logs from XCI and a quick jpg of the WinXP host.
>>
>> I will compile Xen for XCI with debug if necessary?
>
> Could you explain why you use XCI for this kind of thing (video
> passthrough)? Because it provides better support?
>
> Thanks,
> Jun
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefano Stabellini [mailto:stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 15 April 2009 10:50
>> To: Tim Moore
>> Cc: 'Bryan York'; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] good progress on pci vga passthrough in xen-3.4-rc1
>>
>> Tim Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Stefano,
>>>
>>> I have tried all your suggestions with both XCI and Xen-rc1 already to no 
>>> avail. It works for pv DomU but not HVM.
>>>
>>> Disable/enable Cirrus - no effect, tried -std-vga -vga none and all host of 
>>> combinations. When trying primary, the DomU seems to fail and qemu just 
>>> quits I think due to no video.
>>>
>>> Can I get some dmesg / logs that will help to analyse further?
>>>
>>> As I just mentioned to Kier, I'm more than willing to help the community 
>>> out with this one ;) I have been writing code for Win32 for years, i`m just 
>>> a bit new to the Xen scene and developing towards the hw.
>>>
>>
>>
>> In this case you are interested in the qemu and xen logs.
>> For qemu, just open /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-guestname.log; for xen
>> compile the hypervisor with debug = y (in Config.mk) and keep an eye on
>> the serial.
>>
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Jean Guyader

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