Re: [Xen-users] pci graphics in paravirtual domU

[Marduk <xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 01:23 +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> I have two graphics cards in that machine, and want to hand one of
> them over to a domu, and I am basically at the point that this mail
> also describes:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-04/msg00793.html
> 
> When trying to start x, i get
> 
> "xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)"
> 
> I know, using pci graphics in hvm domains defintely doesn't work - for
> paravitual domains some things I read sound like it should be
> possible, but I found no howto or something, and no success story but
> some that are quite old, probably xen 2. So I am not even sure if it's
> supposed to work.

You could "probably" fidget around with PCI passthrough  to get it to
work, but IMO it's not worth it. What I have on the domUs that I need X
on is run an X display manager (e.g. kdm or gdm) headless and just log
into those boxes via XDMCP.


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