From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gordan Bobic Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Xen 4.3 / 4.4 - concurrent APIs, VGA Passthru Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:45:45 +0100 Message-ID: <53F21FA9.7040103@bobich.net> References: <53D5C00E.5040706@ninth-art.de> " <53D659C3.9010500@ninth-art.de>" <53D665C7.6010004@bobich.net> <53D6F500.1010806@ninth-art.de> <53D748DC.10209@bobich.net> <53D74F9E.6010508@ninth-art.de> <53D78B0D.802@ninth-art.de> <53DCC238.3030707@ninth-art.de> <53DE0592.2040208@bobich.net> <53DE0A73.9040304@ninth-art.de> <53DF41E3.9000406@bobich.net> <53F21B20.90108@ninth-art.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <53F21B20.90108@ninth-art.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: therion@ninth-art.de Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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