From: eieiguy <kogee.leung@gmail.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Xen PCI/VGA passthrough failing on Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:32:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354037543967-5712577.post@n5.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342830368860-5710273.post@n5.nabble.com>
I believe your biggest problem is that the A75 chipset does not support
IOMMU. Based on what I've read, it would be impossible to do vga
passthrough without it. You best bet is a 990FX or 970 motherboard with any
AM3 or AM3+ cpu.
CalcProgrammer1 wrote
> I've been trying to set up a VGA-passthrough on my Ubuntu 12.04 box to run
> Windows (for gaming) while leaving my RAID-5 array available (managed by
> Linux). First, here are the machine specs:
>
> CPU: AMD A8-3870K 3.4GHz Quad-Core APU
> GPU: APU-integrated AMD Radeon 6550 (shared memory)
> Mobo: ASUS F1A75-V EVO with AMD-virtualization enabled in UEFI-BIOS
> RAM: 8GB DDR3 1866 G-Skill Sniper (2x4GB)
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2012-07-21 0:26 Xen PCI/VGA passthrough failing on Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) CalcProgrammer1
2012-07-31 23:11 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-11-27 17:32 ` eieiguy [this message]
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