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Re: [Xen-users] Testing *real* Video card in Xen



On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:07:40PM +0100, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> Hi,
> Does Xen share the video card between VMs?

No

> Or is the video card only accessible with the dom0 kernel?

At the moment yes, however with PCI passthrough (available in xen2 and
soon in xen3) you {can/will be able to} grant direct access to any PCI
device ..

> Do you know an application that access the video card (vesa?) directly 
> without needing X11?

You are probably looking at application that can use the framebuffer.
(google will help you on this)

-- 
Vincent Hanquez

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