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>>> On 18.12.12 at 14:37, Martinx - ããããã<thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How can I take full advantage of a remote HVM DomU with a Radeon within > it, without SPICE? > > VNC is enough? Or there is something else better that I don't know? Please stop hijacking an unrelated thread. Thanks, Jan > On 18 December 2012 05:03, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:57:59PM -0200, Martinx - ?$B%8%'!<%`%: wrote: >> > Hi Pasi! >> > Can you tell me if it will be possible to use Xen like this: >> > dom0 -> ATI GPU Passthrough as primary -> HVM domU with Catalyst -> >> Spice >> > -> Spice-Client ? >> > I do not want to use Spice "alone" and, I do not want to use my domU >> with >> > my ATI without SPICE... That makes sense? >> > Thanks! >> >> Afaik SPICE uses and requires the virtual QXL GPU for efficient operation, >> so it doesn't work with physical GPUs. >> >> -- Pasi >> >> > Thiago >> > >> > On 20 August 2012 16:14, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <[1]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:46:59PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: >> > > >> > > Features and improvements not on this list are of course welcome >> at >> > > any time before the feature freeze. >> > > >> > > Any questions and feedback are welcome! >> > > >> > > Your 4.3 release coordinator, >> > > George Dunlap >> > > >> > >> > <snip> >> > > >> > > * xl USB pass-through for PV guests >> > > owner: ? >> > > Port the xend PV pass-through functionality to xl. >> > > >> > >> > xm/xend PVUSB works for both PV and HVM guests, so xl should support >> > PVUSB for both PV and HVM guests aswell. >> > James Harper's GPLPV drivers actually do have PVUSB frontend driver >> for >> > Windows. >> > >> > Also Suse's xenlinux forward-ported patches have PVUSB support in >> > unmodified_drivers for HVM guests. >> > >> > Another USB item: >> > >> > * xl support for USB device passthru using QEMU emulated USB for HVM >> > guests (no need for PVUSB drivers in the HVM guest). >> > This works today in xm/xend with qemu-traditional, but is limited >> to >> > USB 1.1, probably because >> > the old version of Qemu-dm-traditional which lacks USB 2.0/3.0. >> > So xl support for emulated USB device passthru for both >> qemu-upstream >> > and qemu-traditional. >> > >> > More wishlist items: >> > >> > * Nested hardware virtualization. Important for easier testing and >> > development of Xen (Xen-on-Xen), >> > and for running other hypervisors in Xen VMs. Interesting for >> labs, >> > POCs, etc. >> > >> > * VGA/GPU passthru support for AMD/NVIDIA; lots of patches on >> xen-devel >> > archives, >> > but noone has yet stepped up to clean up and get them merged. >> > Currently Intel gfx passthru patches are merged to Xen, but >> primary >> > ATI/NVIDIA require extra patches. >> > This is actually something that a LOT of users ask often, it's >> > discussed almost every day on ##xen on IRC. >> > I wonder if XenClient folks could help here? >> > >> > * Dom0 Keyboard/mouse sharing to HVM guests; mainly needed by >> VGA/GPU >> > passthru users. >> > Fujitsu guys posted some patches for this in 2010, and XenClient >> guys >> > in 2009 (iirc), >> > but nothing got further developed and merged to upstream Xen. >> > >> > * QXL virtual GPU support for SPICE. Someone was already developing >> > this, >> > and posted patches earlier during 4.2 development cycle to >> xen-devel. >> > Upstream Qemu includes QXL support. >> > >> > * PVSCSI support in XL. James Harper was (semi) interested in >> working >> > with this, >> > because he has a PVSCSI frontend driver in Windows GPLPV drivers, >> and >> > he's using PVSCSI for tape backups himself. >> > >> > * libvirt libxl driver improvements; support more Xen features. >> > Allows better using the Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS "default" >> > virtualization GUI also with Xen. >> > >> > Hopefully we'll find interested developers for these items :) >> > >> > -- Pasi >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Xen-devel mailing list >> > [2]Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > [3]http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >> > >> > References >> > >> > Visible links >> > 1. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx >> > 2. mailto:Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > 3. http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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