Re: Fwd: Re: Xen 4.3 / 4.4 - concurrent APIs, VGA Passthru

[Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>]

On 08/18/2014 04:26 PM, Georg Bege wrote:
> Hi
>
> I simply wanted to tell my tale about the outcome of my experiments,
> I was occupied with certain other things (including exchanging some
> zpool's).
> For now I run an Vista x64 and it works pretty well, I never got the
> gplpv drivers running on
> acceptable levels (they are still quite slow) so I decided to pass
> onboard controller, sound and usb3.
> This decission seemed to be a wise one and everything works great as
> expected, the problem with gplpv
> well it might also be a result of my volume scheme since I only run ZFS
> - now an raidz1 (on enterprise disks though).
> I also replaced the nvidia drivers from 331.65 to 337.88 - this revision
> gave me a lot more performance but I can remember I had this issue on
> native Windows too.
>
> So after a lot of testing, pain, time consuming days (and nights) its
> really working great - not perfect maybe.
> My next goal is to dedicate an SSD for that system volume, maybe try
> Win7 again as well -
> also I'd like to get an GTX690 and hardmod it so I get a lot more speed...

Modifying it won't get you more speed.

I was originally planning to use a GTX690 and pass one GPU to each of my 
VMs, but I eventually replaced it with a pair of 780Tis.

I am running on a SSD backed zvol, with gplpv.

Gordan