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Re: [Xen-users] Successful PCIe Graphics VT-d Passthrough to Win32 DomU

To: "Peter J. van der Maas" <peter@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Successful PCIe Graphics VT-d Passthrough to Win32 DomU, Q35 chipset
From: Neo Jia <neojia@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:23:49 -0800
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Peter J. van der Maas <peter@xxxxxxxxx> 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)

What is the driver version you are using?

Thanks,
Neo

>
> -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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