[dundee] Xen ... Pcie Pass through...HMV

[gordon dunlop]

2009/3/8 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>

> Hello all (gordon will like this).
>
> Seems Xen have finally got pcie pass through working with xen HVM domians
> in DOMu.
>
> Unfortunately I don't the require chipset to allow me to test this (it
> needs intel vt-d )
> which gives an IOMMU.
>

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.

>
> What this basically  means is, you'll be able to run Xen, with either a
> linux system in Dom0
> or domU, and windows system in DomU and play direct X games, without
> rebooting. ;-)
>
> It's got lots of other uses to, like improving a vm's IO prerformance ,
> heheeheh
>
> Check it out here
>
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo
>
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Successful-PCIe-Graphics-VT-d-Passthrough-to-Win32-DomU,-Q35-chipset-td21671745.html
>
> Very interesting links Lee, although you will need a motherboard with 2
graphics card slots.

Gordon


>
> I'd say this is a interesting development. It's early days, so I guess it's
> not too stable.
> Who can tell.
>
> So if you have this chipset, please give it a try......
>
> I've also heard some crazy talk about bios vendors building hypervisors
> into the bios's.
> So, you can just parition your machine, without the aid additional
> software.
>
> Crazy stuff.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Lee
>
>
>
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