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From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= <pasik@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Xen VGA graphics passthrough for secondary
	adapters, vBAR=pBAR etc
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:59:39 +0300
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > Now that Xen 4.0.0 is out and has support for primary graphics passth=
ru
> > and many people have been using it already and asking for a status up=
date
> > for secondary adapter passthru I thought of opening a new thread abou=
t this.
> >=20
> > What are the actual issues that need to be resolved to get the=20
> > secondary graphics passthru working? Probably related to VGA BIOS exe=
cution
> > in the guest?=20
> >=20
> > How about the vBAR=3DpBAR stuff required for some (Nvidia) cards?=20
> > How do we get that functionality integrated so people don't need addi=
tional patches?=20
> >=20
> > Was there also a problem that a working VGA BIOS cannot be copied fro=
m some cards=20
> > and they need to use/load it from a file?=20
> >=20
> > Thanks!
> >=20
>=20
> I think is worth letting people know that the only devices supported by
> Nvidia in the pci passthrough scenario are Quadro FX 3800, 4800 and
> 5800 at the moment.
>=20

Yeah.. I guess you mean 'official support' here? What does that mean prac=
tically?=20
FLR support?=20

> This doesn't mean we have to stop trying making the other devices work
> too ;)
>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 G=
TS 512] (rev a2)

That card was reported to work.. :)

-- Pasi