From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Coss Subject: Re: Nvidia, Xen, and Vt-d Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:26:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA790F6.1010000@alcatel-lucent.com> References: <4AA76BAB.5060407@alcatel-lucent.com> <20090909091754.GN31123@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090909091754.GN31123@reaktio.net> 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 Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote: > So I take it you're using the binary/proprietary Nvidia driver? > > It is known to have problems with Xen dom0 kernels.. I'm not sure of th= e > latest status. I think some people have gotten it to work.. > > -- Pasi > =20 Yes, I'm trying to get the binary driver working. On another machine,=20 at another location, I've gotten this to work with OpenSUSE but I was=20 running an older kernel, an older version of Xen, and on older=20 hardware. So I know that it's doable under some set of conditions. To=20 me, it appears that the GTX 295 card is the issue as I suspect is a bit=20 of hack to allow it to straddle 2 pci slots, and if I had some other=20 Nvidia cards at hand, I'd try one and see if this is in fact the problem=20 or if it's Nvidia specific. ---Michael J Coss