Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

[Panayiotis Karabassis <panayk@gmail.com>]

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