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Sandi,
By the way, what NVIDIA Quadro card have you bought? What is the
price?
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Yours sincerely,
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Singapore
On 10/15/2012 12:21 AM, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
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.
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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.
