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[Xen-devel] Re: Nvidia 9500GT Xen VGA passthru

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Nvidia 9500GT Xen VGA passthru
From: Anish Patel <anish.mailing.list@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:39:51 -0500
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I have this almost working now, I think the only thing that i need to change is to add a gfx_passthru=2 option to let xen know not to read from /dev/mem then an option to tell it what VGA rom to use. Are there any patches for 4.01 for this?


Thanks
Anish
On 01/31/11 06:50, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:42:56AM -0500, Peter van der Maas wrote:
I really have not played with too much after the proof of concept.  I do recall 
something eventually breaking the config, perhaps a Xen update.  I've since put 
the hardware to better use, although I am still intrigued by Xen.  At the time, 
I was working with a team that was giving serious consideration to virtualizing 
their platform, and what better way to learn than dig in and get my hands dirty.

I tried to include as much detail at the time, with the plethora of different 
Xen builds, BIOS's updates, etc.

If someone has something specific I can try to help, but doubtful I will be of 
any use.  For example, I did not realize Xen 4.x was even released.  Recent 
projects I've been working on do not lend themselves well to virtualization; 
however, I might have to give Xen 4.0 shot - just to play, of course.  There 
were some serious changes happening with Xen, the Linux kernel, and KVM when I 
stopped playing.

Ok.

I mainly meant if you remember what custom patches did you have to use/create?
Most probably you had to do some vBar=pBar hacking, right?

I guess I'll have to try this myself one day and document the process
with current Xen versions..

-- Pasi


Sorry I could not be of more help.

Peter van der Maas
peter&pjv-c.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 2:04 PM
To: Peter van der Maas
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; anish.mailing.list@xxxxxxxxx; 
xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Nvidia 9500GT Xen VGA passthru


Hello Peter,

Some people have been asking for tips about Nvidia Xen VGA passthru,
so maybe you could help?

Could you post the exact steps you did?

Have you tried with Xen 4.0.x after your initial experiments in 2009?

Thanks!

-- Pasi

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:16:32PM -0500, Peter J. van der Maas wrote:
    I am happy to announce that I have successfully (and finally!) been able
    to pass a PCIe graphics card via VT-d to a Windows XP HVM DomU.



    About time!



    Config:

    -Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad-Core, G0 stepping (I think)

    -Intel DQ35JO Motherboard, Q35 Chipset, BIOS v.991 (1/9/09), VT and VT-d
    enabled

    -nVidia 9500GT (for VT-d passthrough - DomU)

    -nVidia GeForce2 MX200 (Dom0 console)

    -Xen (build: xen-unstable, recent as of ~ 1/25/09 1:00AM-EST)

    -Dom0: Linux-2.6.18.8-xen (via xen-unstable.hg)

    -DomU: Windows XP (pro, sp3, 32-bit)



    Once the VT-d bugs were recently corrected (thank you, xen-devel!),
    everything went fairly smoothly.  Still very buggy yet (its
    xen-unstable!), but overall it works.



    Make sure support for the PCI-backend is compiled into the kernel (not
    just a module) and that you have your pciback.hide options in grub
    (late-binding may work, but I haven't tried).



    Good luck!





    -Peter van der Maas
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