From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: VGA passthrough on unstable Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:52:51 +0300 Message-ID: <20110524155251.GF32595@reaktio.net> References: <20110524154305.GE32595@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline 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: Liwei Cc: xen-devel , xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:49:14PM +0800, Liwei wrote: > On 24 May 2011 23:43, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Did you take a look at this patch? http://lists.xensource.com/archive= s/html/xen-devel/2010-12/msg00705.html > > It supports dynamic detection of BARs and might help you (if you're n= ot using it already). > > > > -- Pasi > > >=20 > Yes I did, but it seems that the BAR detection would only work on ATI > based cards? >=20 Not sure.. I haven't tried the patch myself (and I didn't read it either)= ..=20 > 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. >=20 People have gotten Xen VGA passthru working with Nvidia cards, so it just requires some work to figure it all out..=20 > 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