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Re: [Xen-users] Status of primary AMD GPU passthrough?

To: Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Status of primary AMD GPU passthrough?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:00:42 +0300
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:52:02PM -0600, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
> Is support for passing through an AMD GPU as the primary graphics device  
> present in the main Xen 4.2 development tree, or does it require  
> additional patches?
>
> Also, are any of the optional VT-d features (such as interrupt  
> remapping) required for GPU passthrough? I am wanting to run
> Xen with graphics passthrough on a system with a Core i5-660 processor  
> (which lacks some of the optional features).
>

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough

I believe AMD/ATI GPUs work at least when passed thru as 'secondary'.

-- Pasi


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