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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen VGA graphics passthrough for secondary adapters, vBA
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:03:26PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Now that Xen 4.0.0 is out and has support for primary graphics passthru
> > > > and many people have been using it already and asking for a status
> > > > update
> > > > for secondary adapter passthru I thought of opening a new thread about
> > > > this.
> > > >
> > > > What are the actual issues that need to be resolved to get the
> > > > secondary graphics passthru working? Probably related to VGA BIOS
> > > > execution
> > > > in the guest?
> > > >
> > > > How about the vBAR=pBAR stuff required for some (Nvidia) cards?
> > > > How do we get that functionality integrated so people don't need
> > > > additional patches?
> > > >
> > > > Was there also a problem that a working VGA BIOS cannot be copied from
> > > > some cards
> > > > and they need to use/load it from a file?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think is worth letting people know that the only devices supported by
> > > Nvidia in the pci passthrough scenario are Quadro FX 3800, 4800 and
> > > 5800 at the moment.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah.. I guess you mean 'official support' here? What does that mean
> > practically?
> > FLR support?
> >
>
> It means that the retail Nvidia drivers have been tested in this use
> case and probably contain some changes to make sure it works properly.
>
Ok. I'll add a note about this to the wiki page.
-- Pasi
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