On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:43:48PM +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Jacob Gorm Hansen
> > Sent: 30 January 2007 15:33
> > To: xen-devel
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] NVidia driver status
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > being dissapointed a bit by ATI's support for Xen, I just purchased a
> > top-of-the-line Dell box with an expensive NVidia graphics card, as
> > rumour said they would work better than the ATI ones.
> > Unfortunately, the
> > NVidia installer detects that I am running Xen, and then refused to
> > compile the kernel module, saying that Xen is not supported.
> > Does anyone
> > know of a way around this check, or have fresh experiences getting Xen
> > and NVidia to play together?
>
> Now, there may be calls to say that I'm biased here, but I'm really not
> working with the ATI-side of AMD anyways, so:
>
> The reason it refuses to compile the kernel module is probably more to
> do with the fact that the guys at nVidia KNOWS that it's not going to
> work anyways. If that's the case, it's not really much point in
> bypassing the check itself.
It works just fine on Xen kernels from what I can tell. There are 3rd
party YUM repos which provide pre-compiled nvidia modules which work
with the Fedora Xen kernels.
$ uname -r
2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen
$ cat /proc/modules | grep nvidia
nvidia 7760984 32 - Live 0xffffffff8826b000 (P)
Now perhaps the RPM has been patched to make it compile on Xen, or perhaps
it is just a bug in the installer script, but it does look like it works.
In either case one should file support requests with NVidia directly since
it is a closed source driver which means open source developers can't do much
(if anything) to debug problems without risking getting tainted by/violating
the licensing terms.
Dan.
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