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[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen VGA graphics passthru wiki page

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen VGA graphics passthru wiki page
From: Sergey Tovpeko <tsv.devel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:24:09 +0300
Cc: "Mr. Teo En Ming \(Zhang Enming\)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, weidong.han@xxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Good idea, about wiki!

I'm experimenting with AMD (Six-Core Opteron CPU, RD890 Chipset) with NVIDIA 8400 GS.
All i did were
* set 1:1 mapping between vBar and pBar
* load nvidia's VGA BIOS from the binary file, flushed with nvflash.exe utility.

And the video works in guest, i didn't see any special ussues related to IOMMU-part.

And i didn't see any mail, complaining that AMD hardware doesn't work with GFX passthrough.
Hello,

I just created this wiki page:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough

Feel free to add/edit to make it better!

I haven't tested VGA passthru myself (yet), so there might be some not-so-accurate information there.

-- Pasi


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