From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?Ik1yLiBUZW8gRW4gTWluZyAoWmhhbmcgRW5taW5nKSDlvKDmganpuKMgbw==?= =?UTF-8?B?ZiBTaW5nYXBvcmUi?= Subject: Re: VGA passthrough problems with GeForce GTS 250 and P7Q57-M DO (also: LGA1156 boards with working VT-d) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:30:46 +0800 Message-ID: <4C944E86.9010700@gmail.com> References: Reply-To: space.time.universe@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Andrew Warkentin Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , zhang_enming@lavabit.com, "teoenming@hotmail.com" , "Han, Weidong" , "space.time.universe@gmail.com" , xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Dear Andrew, I have briefly glimpsed through the technical specifications of your=20 ASUS motherboard. http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=3DXSm0g8qR5qb7UN30 At present, Xen 4.0.1 only supports Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA=20 passthrough. Add-on PCI Express x16 graphics cards are not supported=20 yet. Patches, which are currently unavailable, have to be applied to Xen=20 4.0.1. You may wish to passthrough your onboard VGA instead of your=20 NVIDIA GeForce GTS display card. I am getting stability issues in VGA passthrough with Intel integrated=20 graphics (IGD), Xen 4.0.1, and pv-ops dom0 kernel 2.6.32.21 on my Intel=20 Desktop Board DQ45CB. Windows XP HVM domU crashes with a BSOD within 2=20 minutes after booting up. Please try out Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough and let=20 me know whether you encounter any stability issues (Xen 4.0.1). Thank you. --=20 Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) =E5=BC=A0=E6=81=A9=E9=B8=A3 Dip(Mechatroni= cs) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3D100000750083982 Facebook photos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3D100000750083982= #!/profile.php?id=3D100000750083982&v=3Dphotos Facebook videos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3D100000750083982= &v=3Dapp_2392950137 Mobile Phone (Starhub pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Windows Live Messenger: teoenming-at-hotmail.com Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 My Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders (Updat= ed 28 August 2010):- http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-August/295952.html http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_f6a341d9623fda17880159b137c073= 35.xml Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) =E5=BC=A0=E6=81=A9=E9=B8=A3 of Si= ngapore: http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5052/mrteoenmingzhangenmingo.= jpg On 09/18/2010 12:08 PM, Andrew Warkentin wrote: > I am trying to pass an eVGA GeForce GTS 250 to a Windows XP 32-bit > domU. I am using an ASUS P7Q57-M DO motherboard (with the BIOS updated > to the latest version) with a Core i5-660 processor. I am using the > current unstable version of Debian as dom0 (kernel version > 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64), with the current Debian unstable package of Xen > 4.0.1. When I boot the XP domU with graphics passthrough enabled, > nothing happens (the domU starts up, but all I see are the last boot > messages from Xen). > > I also tried passing through the onboard audio adapter to Windows XP, > and the driver loads and recognizes the adapter, but actually playing > sounds doesn't appear to work. I am not sure if the graphics > passthrough failure is related to the problem with the onboard audio > (and therefore a motherboard/CPU problem), or if it has to do with the > graphics card itself. I know that some NVIDIA cards require Xen > patches to be passed through, but I am not sure where to find patches > that will work with Xen 4.0.1 (the ones that I found were from August > 2009, and I get failed hunks when I try to apply them to Xen 4.0.1). > > Does anybody know if there are vBAR=3DpBAR patches available for Xen > 4.0.1 (or if they have been integrated into the current Xen > development tree)? Alternatively, if this is a motherboard problem, > does anybody know of any LGA1156 motherboards that definitely have > working VT-d? > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > > =20