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VT-d Device Pass-Through Support

VT-d Device Pass-Through Support

Posted Aug 27, 2008 21:01 UTC (Wed) by Tuxie (guest, #47191)
Parent article: Xen 3.3 hypervisor released

Has anyone tested the "VT-d Device Pass-Through Support"? Can I have a guest OS use the second graphics card with full 3D acceleration? Is it stable?


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VT-d Device Pass-Through Support

Posted Aug 27, 2008 21:12 UTC (Wed) by Webexcess (subscriber, #197) [Link]

unless you have a MMU for devices capable of DMA I can't see how you could safely give access to hardware like that.

VT-d Device Pass-Through Support

Posted Aug 27, 2008 21:36 UTC (Wed) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link]

VT-d includes such an MMU.

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