[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Windows guest accelerated 3d?
Thank you for making it a little clearer... So if i understand it clearly, the best solution would be 2 graphics cards? I have 1 integrated GPU and 1 i PCI-E slot...Would this work? I think, to have 1 GPU dedicated to domU and 1 to dom0? And even for windoze? And how? VMGL is unfortunately only for opengl, but most windows games uses directx... I think wine has some translation layer between DX and opengl, but i dont think that it will be merged with VMGL, or that VMGL will have something simillar... Do u think in future, there will be some similar layer in Xen, something like virtual 3D card for guest? Or xen 3D will suppot will go IOMMU path? If there will be working IOMMU kernel & chipset & CPU, will the 3D acceleration work through vnc? It is still best wine for playing games, or qemu, vmware or another VM is also developing 3D acceleration in full virtualised guest? I heard that vmware have something working, but it only supports DX8.1 and it is very buggy... Is here anyone that has more information about 3D in other VMs? I just thought that Xen is the fastest solution for virtualization... Thank you for answering at least some of my many questions. Many thanky Best regards Gryffus----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Gryffus" <gryffus@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:14 AM Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows guest accelerated 3d? Hi there Gryffus,I have few questions, so if some1 could answer them i would be very thankful... I wanna use xen for following purpose:I'm planning to buy shiny new box and i wanna run a linux (xen?) kernel and i want to run window$ 3D applications accelerated (with working directx)...All of this without reboot... 1) What i need to run windows XP in xen with _accelerated_ 3D? IOMMU, or something more than that? 2 graphics cards? And which processors does support IOMMU and what graphics card is the best for this?At the moment you can't get 3D accelerated graphics with only one graphics card...Code supporting IOMMU has recently been added to xen-unstable so it's possible that you could pass through a PCI device to a Windows guest. In practice, I suspect that graphics cards haven't been tested, so passing them through maynot work. It is very new support, anyhow.I don't know of any companies who'd support 3D accelerated virtual machinesfor you just yet :-( I expect that will change in a year or two, though. FYI, getting 3D graphics drivers to load under Xen can be a pain even fordom0. For that reason, you might find another VMM is more convenient to use.Still, people have managed to get versions of the Nvidia and ATI drivers working in the past... That doesn't solve the problem of accelerating Windows, though.2) Is the best solution work normally on xen kernel (kde desktop, compiz,etc....) and have window$ the only 1 guest, or 1xen kernel, and 2guests - 1 linux for working and 1 window$ for gaming? And how do i switch between all the VMs? Or better way is to have 1st VM running on 1st display and 2nd VMon 2nd display? How?Typically you have VNC connections to each guest in order to access thevirtual screen. Because Xen is server-oriented, most people don't do a lotof interacting with the display device (which is currently a little slow). For Unixy guests, you can also just use something like X-forwarding. Because it's just VNC, the virtual machine displays appear in Windows.If you're going to use the machine as a desktop, it makes sense to interactwith dom0 directly for normal work. I don't think you'll be doing much gaming with Windows if you have to use the emulated graphics though :-(Something you might find cool is VMGL - a project (still a bit experimental, Ithink) to give 3D acceleration to X11 (Linux, FreeBSD) virtual machines. It's actually independent of Xen and can work with VMware. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/Sorry I couldn't give you more positive news about Windows gaming under Xen. In consolation, I guess I'd note that if you're running really demanding 3Dgames you mightn't want the CPU overhead / network of running under virtualisation. Cheers, Mark -- Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no pedals! Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard? Dave: Skateboards have wheels.Mark: My wheel has a wheel! _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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