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Re: [Xen-devel] XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters up to date?

>> What patches did you apply? VGA passthru was first introduced in Xen 4.0,
>> it wasn't in Xen 3.4. Or has it been added recently?
>>
>> Also, what dom0 kernel did you use?
>> What grub settings (for device hiding etc)?
>>
> 
> I use normal device pass throught, I forgot to mentioned that was
> passing it through as a secondary display adapter so no need to do any
> fancy VGA tweak for that.
> 
> I used SLE 2.6.32 xen as dom0 + XCI patch queue.
> I used pci back directly to hide the device from dom0 after boot (echo
> the gpu BDF into sysfs).
> 
> Jean

I have a similar experience using Xen 4.0.1, with linux pvops kernel
(2.6.32).

Somehow, i never seemed to get the 'Bios boot' to work, however, when
passing these cards through to the DomU, then the following
combinations
seem to work fine once started:
- Ubuntu Lucid (64bit) + Catalyst (10.7 or 10.8)   (primary or
secondary)
- Windows XP (32bit) + Catalyst (10.7 or 10.8)     (primary, have not
tried as secondary)
- Windows 7 (64bit) + Catalyst 10.9                (primary, have not
tried as secondary)
Note that when trying the opensource driver on ubuntu, it exits with
errors, which seem
to indicate it can't find the Bios.

I have a Asus P7P55D-Evo mainboard, with two Asus EAH4350 graphic
cards, 
both cards are passed through to a domU, both don't show bios messages
on
boot (even when i use graphics passthru setting), but they work fine
with the installed drivers after the domains have booted.
For me, that's good enough ;-)


Regards,
Mark.


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