<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/8 Lee Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk">toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hello all (gordon will like this).<br><br>Seems Xen have finally got pcie pass through working with xen HVM domians in DOMu.<br><br>Unfortunately I don't the require chipset to allow me to test this (it needs intel vt-d )<br>
which gives an IOMMU.<br></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>I have only got a dual core Opteron socket 939 which has no inbuilt vt instructions therefore I cannot run unmodified Linux guests in Xen. <br></div>
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<br>What this basically means is, you'll be able to run Xen, with either a linux system in Dom0<br>or domU, and windows system in DomU and play direct X games, without rebooting. ;-)<br><br>It's got lots of other uses to, like improving a vm's IO prerformance , heheeheh<br>
<br>Check it out here<br><br><a href="http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo" target="_blank">http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo</a><br><br><a href="http://www.nabble.com/Successful-PCIe-Graphics-VT-d-Passthrough-to-Win32-DomU,-Q35-chipset-td21671745.html" target="_blank">http://www.nabble.com/Successful-PCIe-Graphics-VT-d-Passthrough-to-Win32-DomU,-Q35-chipset-td21671745.html</a><br>
<br></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div>Very interesting links Lee, although you will need a motherboard with 2 graphics card slots.<br><br>Gordon<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br>I'd say this is a interesting development. It's early days, so I guess it's not too stable.<br>Who can tell.<br><br>So if you have this
chipset, please give it a try...... <br><br>I've also heard some crazy talk about bios vendors building hypervisors into the bios's.<br>So, you can just parition your machine, without the aid additional software.<br>
<br>Crazy stuff.<br><br><br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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