From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: [Xen-users] [REQUEST] Request for Xen Users to Attempt Jean David Techer's Xen 4.2-unstable VGA Passthrough Documentation Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:47:17 +0300 Message-ID: <20120331104717.GU12984@reaktio.net> References: <4F7334D9.2020700@gmail.com> <4F73C718.9020905@gmail.com> <4F7484C0.2060009@gmail.com> <4F74AB69.4080507@gmail.com> <4F74C205.9070104@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Casey DeLorme Cc: "xen-users@lists.xen.org" , "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" , wei.huang2@amd.com, Tobias Geiger , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:29:01PM -0400, Casey DeLorme wrote: > David, > XenServer VGA Passthrough requires a paid/licensed copy, which costs > $2500, a bit out of my price range for experimentation. Important to note > that the feature is not a part of the 30-day trial license. > Afaik XenServer only supports GPU passthru with certain "pro" GPUs - not consumer models. > However, Citrix recently visited my college and I was able to preview > hardware access on a laptop one of the employees had, where they swapped > between Ubuntu and Windows with a hotkey, and various hardware components > including onboard GPU and the WebCam were accessible. > And here you're talking about XenClient, which is a totally separate product for laptops. XenClient does a lot of tricks to share the (consumer) GPU between VMs, including the V4V framework to copy GPU data between VMs. -- Pasi