From: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
To: Liwei <xieliwei@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: VGA passthrough on unstable
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:52:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110524155251.GF32595@reaktio.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinAFfJXZNzHtp8qO_rbhUPNVnVyJQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:49:14PM +0800, Liwei wrote:
> On 24 May 2011 23:43, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Did you take a look at this patch? http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-12/msg00705.html
> > It supports dynamic detection of BARs and might help you (if you're not using it already).
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
>
> Yes I did, but it seems that the BAR detection would only work on ATI
> based cards?
>
Not sure.. I haven't tried the patch myself (and I didn't read it either)..
> Come to think of it, the decision to get a Nvidia card was probably a
> mistake. Seeing how most successful configurations are using ATI
> cards, I'm thinking of getting an ATI card instead.
>
People have gotten Xen VGA passthru working with Nvidia cards,
so it just requires some work to figure it all out..
> In case I do, any AMD/ATI engineer can confirm if a HD 6870 or 6850 is workable?
We really should get the wiki page up-to-date wrt. tested adapters..
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters
-- Pasi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 15:35 VGA passthrough on unstable Liwei
2011-05-24 15:43 ` [Xen-devel] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-05-24 15:49 ` Liwei
2011-05-24 15:52 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen [this message]
2011-05-24 18:25 ` Pavel Matěja
2011-05-30 14:23 ` [Xen-devel] " Liwei
2011-05-24 17:27 ` Gennady Marchenko
2011-05-24 15:44 ` Liwei
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