7

My motherboard is the "Z68 Extreme7 Gen3", and it supports VT-d. I also have an i3, that also supports VT-d.

I would like to play games under a virtualized environment using graphics card passthrough. What Hypervisor and GPU support this?

Is this even possible?

3
  • 1
    Probably, Xen - take a look at this Phoronix post
    – Sathyajith Bhat
    Jul 27, 2012 at 10:55
  • 1
    Keep in mind, you can't passthrough a device if the VM host is using it. You'll probably need a separate graphics card for the host.
    – Wyzard
    Jul 27, 2012 at 12:09
  • Thanks both. I've purchased a 7970 and i will post the results :)
    – cedivad
    Jul 27, 2012 at 18:54

1 Answer 1

3

Well, it was rather easy to make it work.

Ubuntu 12.04 + Xen 4.1
ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3
Intel i5-2500 (not the K version)
AMD 7970 Gh Edition

enter image description here

ATI seems to be the only viable solution while Xen-dev 4.2 is working on something for Nvidia, but they are still in alpha stage. They implement a pack that makes Nvidia cards working a little bit and they break AMD support. Tragicomic.

4
  • How does this work in practice? Can you switch between Ubuntu and Windows? Are they using the same graphics card and monitors?
    – Oli
    Mar 26, 2013 at 15:44
  • Ubuntu is the hypervisor and dosen't have a graphic device. It's a server on the rooftop. For do what you want to, you should use the (mainboard) gpu for ubuntu, and the radeon for windows.
    – cedivad
    Mar 28, 2013 at 9:50
  • @cedivad: I have one doubt is the graphics card also virtual in your experiment?
    – karthick
    Jul 17, 2013 at 13:30
  • No, it's real, in every sense.
    – cedivad
    Jul 26, 2013 at 10:12

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .