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Re: [Xen-users] pv_ops kernel and nvidia binary driver

To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michael Ralston <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] pv_ops kernel and nvidia binary driver
From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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A while ago Jeremy responded the same question.
Per Jeremy:-  unmodified binary Nvidia driver would crash under Xen.
Modified driver should in the pvops kernel.

It's also my major concern as well.

Boris

--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Michael Ralston <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Michael Ralston <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] pv_ops kernel and nvidia binary driver
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 1:48 AM

Just wondering what it will take to get the nvidia binary driver
working on a pv_ops kernel.

It makes it difficult to debug without the source to the nvidia
driver, but I think it should be possible to get it to work without
changing the binary driver. If the dom0 kernel had access to all the
resources that a bare metal kernel did, then it should work right?

I'm using Jeremy's current master branch, and hypervisor 3.4.1-rc6 on
Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit.

Attached is my kern.log and Xorg.0.log when I attempt to start Xorg.
The screen goes blank and my monitor enters powersave mode, but I am
able to run an xterm and it appears to connect to the X server. Also
when the X server exits, it returns the console to a sane state.

I've also tried to get the nvidia driver to work with rebased suse
kernel 2.6.29.6 and hypervisor 3.3 and 3.4. With that version kernel
it blacks the screen. I can remote ssh in to my pc, but I can't reboot
the pc. It needs a hard reset.

-- Michael

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