Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4 VGA Passthrough - Keyboard/Mouse?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:55:59PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:11:01PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > On Apr 08, Nick Couchman [Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > I've just installed Xen 4 and am working to get VGA passthrough
> > > configured.  I seem to have that piece successfully configured, but,
> > > unfortunately, have no keyboard and mouse support in my new VM.  If I try
> > > USB pass-through, I get the following error message in the
> > > qemu-dm-<domain>.log file:
> > 
> > I am getting ready to attempt this as well so please let us know if you
> > figure it out whether anyone here has the answer or not.
> > 
> > I did note with some concern that the current
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels states the pv_ops kernel
> > lacks usbback, but http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
> > recently indicated vga passthrough was only available in the pv_ops kernel.
> > The latter page was modified today or yesterday to no longer have that
> > chart, though, and the version on
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenKernelFeatures doesn't say anything
> > about vga passthrough.
> > 
> > So I don't really know the real state, but that at least looked like you
> > could have either hvm vga passthrough OR hvm usb passthrough.
> > 
> 
> usbback is only required for _pvusb_, not for the traditional qemu USB 1.1 
> passthrough!
> 
> VGApassthrough should work OK with pvops dom0 kernel.. it's mainly about Xen 
> doing correct things.
> 

See: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenUSBPassthrough

-- Pasi


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