Re: [Xen-users] passthrough 1 monitor

[Hugh Bragg <hughbragg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's right thanks.
Actually I'd thought that but I was a bit stuck because I need the box
to come up the first time with a monitor so I can configure it.
But then I want to pass through the gpu to a DomU afterwards and am
looking for a easy way to try this out.
I'm wondering now, Once I pass the gpu through to a domu, I can't
reassign the gpu unless I shut the first domu instance down right?
So I guess the only way is to assign the gpu to one domu and access all
the other domu instances remotely.
I can't for example, switch the monitor and console through to each domu
like a kvm switchbox can I?
I'm trying to migrate my vbox host (with acceleration) and it's vms
guests (without acceleration) onto xen with a minimum of downtime.

Hugh.


On 15/04/2016 6:40 PM, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> no, you can't passthrough monitor. if you don't need acceleration, you
> might go with fullscreen vnc/rdp/... but the guest won't have the
> acceleration from gpu.
> I've been using that hack some time till I made passthrough work
> properly, but it's quite pain ...
> better get another gpu or manage the host over ssh like I do :)
>
> Gh.
>
> Hugh Bragg wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series in a pcie 2.0 and I want to use one
>> monitor for the host and pass the other through to the guest.
>> Is it possible to passthrough just 1 of the monitors on a single pci gpu?
>> Only asking because I think it will make setup easier.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
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