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Dear Sandi,
I cannot even get GTX 560 to work with Windows XP, not to mention
Windows 7.
Could you help me get my GTX 560 to work with Windows XP? By the
way, Dariusz Krempa mentioned he got VGA Passthrough working with
GTX 560 in Windows 7 HVM using David Techer's patches.
As for the one person success story, are you referring to Frank
Lyon's NVIDIA Quadro 6000? I have his success story mentioned in
the manual I have written.
Thank you very much.
--
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Singapore
On 10/14/2012 07:08 PM, Sandi Romih wrote:
Teo,
I could not get Windows 7 to work with this method.
The Nvidia cards have a serious problem working in a VM. The
patches which Davad uses, are very old, and so I believe that
they do not properly address the issues with the NVidia cards
(please understand that I am not criticizing the work David has
done), and from what I have understood, David passes the Nvidia
cards through to a Linux VM.
I could only get these patches working with Windows XP. I got
the same issue you are describing when I tried to pass the VGA
card to Windows 7.
I have abandoned trying to pass through the commercial brand
of Nvidia cards, I have ordered an Nvidia Quadro card for this
endevour. I have read one persons success story about this (I
have not been able to find much info about this online).
The alternative is to use ATI cards. They seam to work almost
always with the newer versions of cards.
Also, I have read some people say that ATI is also actively
involved with the development of Xen to get passthrough working.
But I don't know how true that is.
Sorry I can't give you the news you would like to hear.
I also used David Techer's guide and his patches, but,
for some reason, I was only able to get a partially
working setup. There is a yellow triangle with
exclamation mark and error code 43 for my GTX 560 in
Device Manager in Windows 7 and Windows 8 HVM domU.
Could you please read through the guide I have written
and see if there are any mistakes, errors or omissions?
I am trying to
decide between
Nvidia's Quadro range
of video cards and
ATI's mainstream video
card for my VGA
passthough setup.
I have managed to
get a mainstream
Nvidia (GTX 460)
passed through to a
VM, but it is a
complex process and it
does not work as I
would like it to work
(not possible to
reboot windows
domU's).
I would like to
hear from anyone who
has successfully
passed a Quadro
graphics card (ones
that support
virtualization) to a
windows OS (preferably
Windows 7), and what
problems or issues
they have encountered.
