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Re: [Xen-users] What is the Current Status of VGA Pass-through in Xen 4.

To: "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] What is the Current Status of VGA Pass-through in Xen 4.0.0 Hypervisor?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:17:10 +0300
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 08:46:07PM +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of 
Singapore wrote:
>    Dear All,
> 
>    I have been away from the xen-devel mailing list for a long time, since
>    December 2009. I have not been kept up to date as to what is going on in
>    the Xen community since that time.
> 
>    May I know what is the latest xen-unstable release version? Should be in
>    the Xen 4.x.x series right?
> 

Xen 4.0 is stable branch. Xen 4.0.1-rc6 was just released this week,
and Xen 4.0.1 final expected late next week:

http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-4.0-testing.hg


>    May I know what is the latest Xen pv-ops dom0 kernel release by Jeremy
>    Fitzhardinge?
> 

xen.git xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch is the long-term maintained kernel,
currently it's at 2.6.32.19 version, changelog:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=xen/stable-2.6.32.x


>    May I know what is the current status of VGA pass-through in the latest
>    xen-unstable release and latest Xen pv-ops dom0 kernel release combined?
> 

Some (many?) people have gotten it working for primary graphics cards..
And also there are problems with many cards, that require additional tweaks
or vBar=pBar patches.

See:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough

and (which hasn't been updated much..):
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters

-- Pasi

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