xen kernel and nvidia

[Chris Snook]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 05:39 -0700, Phill wrote:
>> I'm trying to play around with xen on Fedora 8 a bit.
>> I have a dual monitor configuration with livna's
>> kmod-nvidia drivers with my non-xen kernel. I can't
>> seem to find kmod-nvidia-xen  for Fedora 8. Does
>> anyone know a work around for this, or some other
>> method for setting up dual monitors on Fedora 8?
>> Thanks in advance!
> 
> nVidia doesn't officially support Xen.
> Unofficially their binary driver -may- work (with a bit of hacking [1]),
> but you're more-or-less on your own.
> 
> - Gilboa
> [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=60125

Based on my experience, I would guess that Nvidia doesn't support the hack 
because it's prone to eating babies (even more than normal) if you're using a 
64-bit kernel, multiple logical processors, or more than 3 GB of RAM.

If you want to use the Nvidia driver with virtualization on modern hardware, 
you'll probably have better luck with KVM than Xen.

-- Chris