[vfio-users] Emulated VGA and real card running in parallel

Blank Field ihatethisfield at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 23:05:00 UTC 2015


Ahh, i can't give you an exact link, but at the 2014 KVM forum talk you've
mentioned something called secondary pass through. What is it then?
On Sep 17, 2015 1:59 AM, "Blank Field" <ihatethisfield at gmail.com> wrote:

> Win10 does the same thing as 7 or 8 when no driver for qxl is installed.
> It disables the emulated card.
> On Sep 17, 2015 1:57 AM, "Alex Williamson" <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Cool, your setup is very similar to mine.
>>> Except i've tried attaching three identical cards to one vm.
>>> But what about the mouse?
>>> My mouse input tend to freeze in weird games like minecraft, but i work
>>> around this by adding a second USB emulated mouse.
>>> Also, aw, if the emulated GPU turns itself offline in presence of a real
>>> one, how can we do secondary pass through?
>>>
>>
>> Huh?
>>
>>
>>> The kind of GPU assignment where we have a QEMU window with accelerated
>>> graphics in it.
>>>
>>
>> Run something newer than Win7.  Even then I don't really consider it
>> viable because you lose the majority of the performance of having an
>> assigned GPU by having it render into the emulated graphics framebuffer.
>>
>
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