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Re: [Xen-devel] XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters up to date?



On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:26:15AM +0100, Jean Guyader wrote:
> On 7 October 2010 08:57, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 01:06:31AM -0400, Eric Stein wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've been looking to virtualize a Win7 guest and a Gentoo Linux guest
> >> side by side, each having access to one video card.  However, most of
> >> the consumer cards I've looked at are either somewhat out of date
> >> (Nvidia 8800 GTS) or not listed on the wiki page for VGA passthrough:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters
> >>
> >> Based on my reading of the pages around VTd and IOMMU, I should be able
> >> to use the patches to accomplish my goal if I choose a card that works
> >> with Xen (or use one of the workarounds, for instance vBAR=pBAR).
> >>
> >> I'm inclined to think this page is out of date as I've heard mention
> >> that various Intel IGD onboard cards have support... is there a
> >> different resource I should be looking to to determine which cards I
> >> should consider buying?
> >>
> >
> > Yep, that wiki page is unfortunately very out-of-date.
> > If you know a list of tested adapters I can add them to the wiki.
> >
> 
> ATI HD4550, ATI HD5750 work fine with the latest catalyst driver (10-9).
> 

Could you please tell more about the hardware, and also software versions used.
See the wiki page for details.

-- Pasi


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