On 02/11/2012 03:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 14:36 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> My (ambitious) goal is to setup a windoze domU with VGA passthrough to >> play games in, because I refuse to dual-boot. I could be wrong, but I >> assumed that the driver used by the dom0 would have an effect on the >> performance of the domU. > > If you are passing the card through then no h/w specific driver in dom0 > will even see it (technically speaking the dom0 driver is "xen-pciback", > which is not something h/w specific), only the driver in the guest > domain would make any difference.
Thanks, this is an answer I could not have easily found on the web. > I've never used VGA passthrough myself but as an observer it seems to me > that there are plenty of other pitfalls and gotchas with doing VGA > passthrough though than just the driver which you use. I suggest you > contact the upstream xen-users list (http://lists.xen.org) rather than > the Debian lists since you are more likely to find those who can help > there than anywhere around here. > >> And I think that adding another proprietary >> program to a chain of proprietary programs is not a grave offense. > > That is your prerogative but you cannot then expect that Debian will > support you once you have taken this path. > > Ian. I'll open a new bug report for the people you mentioned, since nouveau does not work either. -- Best regards, Panayiotis Karabassis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
