WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

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

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:45:03AM -0600, Nick Couchman wrote:
> > 
> > I just added your IGD model info to:
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough
> > 
> > Feel free to tell how it goes with the ATI adapter. There has been extra 
> > patches
> > floating on the xen-devel list for some other troublesome adapters.
> > 
> > Although it might just work with ATI aswell, who knows :)
> > 
> 
> Well, the initial attempts with an Nvidia card aren't quite so successful - 
> the domain tries to start, but stalls at some point - hard to tell where.  I 
> get messages in the qemu-dm log file that say that the real physical device 
> 01:00.0 (the PCI slot of the add-in video card) has been successfully 
> registered, but then it kind of stalls and doesn't go any further than that.  
> I need to make sure I have the actual 4.0 release and not one of the RCs (I'm 
> using some pre-built RPMs for openSuSE), so perhaps that will help.
> 

Also keep in mind many Nvidia cards will require extra/custom patches.. 
See the XenVGAPassthrough wiki page for some links, and xen-devel archives for 
discussions and more patches..

I think some of the threads has instructions what you need to do with Nvidia
to get it working.

Please let us know how it goes..

-- Pasi


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users