From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" Subject: nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA Pass Through to Windows XP Home 32-bit HVM Virtual Machine with Intel Desktop Board DQ45CB Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:47:00 +0800 Message-ID: <4A940774.6020209@asiasoftsea.net> Reply-To: enming.teo@asiasoftsea.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Dear All, I have managed to do PCI-e VGA passthrough with the open source Xen but=20 the work is still in progress because although Windows XP guest can see=20 the REAL PCI-e x16 graphics card instead of an emulated graphics driver,=20 it cannot be initialized yet. Thanks to Intel Engineer Han Weidong, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen, Boris Derzhave= ts,=20 Marc, Caz Yokoyama, and others who have helped me and shared their=20 knowledge with me along the way. System Configuration: Intel Desktop Board DQ45CB with BIOS upgraded to 0093 Onboard Intel GMA 4500 Graphics (IGD) nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 Graphics Card Fedora 11 Linux 64-bit Xen paravirt operations Domain 0 Host Operating=20 System Xen 3.5 Unstable/Development Type 1 Hypervisor Jeremy Fitzhardinge's Xen paravirt-ops domain 0 Kernel 2.6.31-rc6 Primary Video Adapter in BIOS: IGD Please see the screenshots and my blog at the link here: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/2009/08/nvidia-geforce-8= 400-gs-pci-express-x16.html --=20 Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics Engineering) BEng(Hons)(M= echanical Engineering) Technical Support Engineer Information Technology Department Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd Tampines Central 1 #04-01 Tampines Plaza Singapore 529541 Republic of Singapore Mobile: +65-9648-9798 MSN: teoenming@hotmail.com Alma Maters: Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore