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Re: How to startx inside a pbuilder-managed chroot?



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Hi,

On 18.09.2011 00:24, Paul Wise wrote:
> Apparently Xen does support that for GPUs though.

yes it does, but don't expect too much from it. Passing through video
cards is a complicated, error-prone operation. For some video cards
(notably Nvidia's) this is known not to work at all in some cases. If I
didn't scare you off yet, have a look to [1] and [2].

Finally please note, passing through a PCI devices implies to hide it
from your host system. This means, you have /no/ video card output at
all from your host system, unless you have a spare video card. This
turns your testing system into a headless one.

[1] http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough
[2] http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough
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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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