From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gordan Bobic Subject: Re: =?utf-8?b?W1hlbi11c2Vyc10g77u/77u/IFhlbiBWR0EgUGFz?= =?utf-8?q?sthrough_-_GTX_680_successfully_=EF=BB=BFhard-moded=09to_GRID_K?= =?utf-8?q?2?= Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:07:18 +0100 Message-ID: <97e90a2537fe6a05a6f3d31044bdeb34@mail.shatteredsilicon.net> References: "\"\\\"\\\\\\\"<1379957311.87960.YahooMailNeo@web172003.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>" <1379957703.78329.YahooMailNeo@web172003.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>" "<20130924151253.GF2924@reaktio.net>\"" "<0a0befc680ec51e540f6de1c3e59beba@mail.shatteredsilicon.net>\" <1380052012.28711.YahooMailNeo@web172005.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <1380121823.72995.YahooMailNeo@web172001.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> "\"" <1380124979.41929.YahooMailNeo@web172002.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1380124979.41929.YahooMailNeo@web172002.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: David TECHER Cc: xen-users@lists.xen.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:02:59 +0100 (BST), David TECHER wrote: >>I _may_ be wrong here, but doesn't the gfx_passthru=1 get ignored > >in that case? If it was working, the BIOS level and bootup output > >should come up on the passthru GPU, should it not? I guess > >gfx_passthru=1 just disables the emulated Cirrus VGA, but in that > >case the boot-up animation shouldn't show up on VNC. > >>So I'm not sure what is going on in this case. > > Oh No you're right. I am mistaken (Apologies!). The boot-up animation > doesn't appear on the VNC console. > > I tested it an re-checked it on both XP 64 and Win 7 64. Right. And since you aren't side-loading the GPU BIOS, I would guess the boot-up animation doesn't appear at all. It runs headless right up to the point where the GPU driver loads in Windows. Gordan