Re: [Xen-users] Vanderpool Hardware Question

["David Goodlad" <dgoodlad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/20/06, Goran Vukoman <vukoman@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you Dave for answering my questions.
>
> ...
> > > C. I know that I can't assign one ore more graphicadapters to a domU
> > > with paravirtualisation. But...
> > >
> > >     Is it possible to assign one ore more graphicadapters to one
> > > guestmaschine in Xen 3.0 with a Vanderpool capable machine?
> >
> > You can't do PCI passthrough to an hvm guest, no :(  I had wanted to
> > do this as well, but it is not possible due to memory addressing
> > problems.
> ...
>
> So there's still no IOMMU available in a PC to restrict the access for
> DMA capable devices. Hmph....
>
> But maybe the unsure alternative with "physdev_dom0_hide" work for the
> second or third graphicadapter.
>
> Did you get Windows installed in a Xen/linux environment? (Shame on me
> but some customers want some Windows based network-services)

Yes, I was able to install Windows succesfully.  It runs great (great
being a relative term, this IS windows hehe); I had it running Prime95
for a week straight without a hitch.

Dave

>
> ...
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> > http://david.goodlad.ca/
>
>
> Goran
>
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