[Xen-users] Re: Passing a PCI-E video card to a DomU

[Andrés Lagar Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,
Xen-GL: I'm playing unreal on my domU's :)
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl
Although the code there is not completely up to date. Will update soon.
Not for windows though.
Andres

> As far as I've seen (which isn't very far), opengl performance under most
> virtualization products has been non-existent to poor. I've been cooking up
> an idea to stick two PCIe video cards in a computer, and hand one off to a
> DomU instance (windows?), and use that for 3D rendering in that DomU. I'm
> curious to see if it's even technically possible (I wasn't sure if VMX
> guests can handle raw PCI devices), and if anyone has attempted it before
> and what they've run into. The idea is that if this works (and well), it'd
> be a good excuse for me to consolidate my computers into one big fast
> machine instead of spreading my money out across 2 or 3 machines. I went
> through a few pages of google results, saw a lot of talk, but no one who's
> done it yet.
>
> Any information on this topic would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> James Harr

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