From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Guyader Subject: Re: Pass-through a graphic card Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:36:15 +0000 Message-ID: <4905FC0F.7000801@eu.citrix.com> References: <6b5ba5140810271029k21e7aa6dsa22bfaad874cc798@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6b5ba5140810271029k21e7aa6dsa22bfaad874cc798@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: billy lau Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org billy lau wrote: > Hi dear Xen developers, > > I was actually trying out a patch which was circulated in this mailing > list found at > http://markmail.org/message/gecwbq4oqttszxvo#query:+page:1+mid:x4ethv65thwrq3e6+state:results. > > I was using Xen-3.3.0 on Debian etch 4.0, kernel 2.6.18.8-xen on a Intel > machine with Vt-d enabled. > However, during that process, I found out that I was unable to compile > properly by just applying the patch. But I did manage to solve the > compilation problem, and now the problem is that there are linkage > problems where it says there is an undefined reference to 'ioctl'. > > Does anyone in this list know of a solution to this? Or, is there any > other alternatives or works that has been done to pass-through a > graphics card to domU? > > Any advice is very much appreciated, and thank you in advance, Hi Billy, This patch is useful only if you want to pass through the graphic card as a primary on the guest. We've got good result when we pass through a legacy nvidia graphic card as secondary in the guest (just put pci = ['B:D:F']) in your config file. You need to install at least the version 178.12 for of the nvidia driver. -- Jean Guyader