Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start
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.
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.
--
Ian Campbell
BOFH excuse #179:
multicasts on broken packets
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