Note: It's best to have a another GPU (Intel onboard or separate graphics card) for your Linux, and pass-through the secondary GPU (the one NOT used by Linux). Search for 'Xen VGA passthrough tested adapters'. The Intel onboard graphics is supposedly also compatible. Many (most?) AMD graphics cards are supported, and some Nvidia cards, namely the professional 'multi-OS' Quadro series (starting from the Quadro 2000 upwards). Still, if the option shows up, chances are good.Ī VGA-passthrough compatible graphics adapter. Some BIOS implementations have been reported buggy, though. Your motherboard (and motherboard BIOS) must have an option to enable VT-d (sometimes called IOMMU). Note: The 3930K with C2 stepping also supports VT-d, but it's not listed when using the VT-d filter. Your CPU must support VT-d (Intel) or AMD-Vi / IOMMU (AMD) !!! Don't confuse it with VT-x - these are two different things. Here some basic guidelines to check if your hardware is compatible: You can also directly access other PC hardware using PCI passthrough, for example USB host controllers, SATA controllers, etc., all of which will then be available under Windows, with Windows-native drivers.īUT, as mentioned before, you need to carefully select your hardware. Xen hypervisor allows you to run a Windows VM with direct access to your graphics card (hardware).

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