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Re: [Xen-users] Xen + Nvidia drivers

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen + Nvidia drivers
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:08:25 -0600
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Mogens Valentin wrote:

bregulla wrote:

Hello,

I try to get a Nvidia Quadro PCI-E graphics card to work with xen in Dom0 with the binary nivida-drivers. I use the xen-2.0-testing tarball with kernel 2.6.12 and the nvidia driver package NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1. The nvidia kernel module compiles without errors but when I try to load it segfaults.
Is it possibly because the tls-libs are disabled?
Has anyone managed to get the nvidia drivers to work with xen? Or is there a general problem with xen + nvidia?

This is a recipe for disaster. The nVidia kernel driver has a binary layer that it not Xen-ready. It's very likely that it's going to be doing something it's not supposed to do in Xen.

You're out of luck until nVidia releases a Xen driver. You can also use the Open Source driver (or even just Vesa).

This is why binary modules are so evil...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Not sure I can help, but there's been general problems with nvidia driver for a looong time. Check the threads on nvnews.com . Many still use the old 6629 driver, though it doesn't have as many fancy features as later drivers. Then again, you may not need 8x AA and AF...

Of cause those problems are not normally related to Xen, but you may wan't to give 6629 a try.



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