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VGA Passthrough

Requirements

For intel:

  • CPU that supports Vt-d and Vt-x
  • Motherboard that supports Vt-d
  • Vt-d and Vt-x must be enabled in BIOS or UEFI

For AMD

  • CPU that supports IOMMU and VMX
  • Motherboard that supports IOMMU
  • IOMMU and VMX must be enabled in BIOS or UEFI

Video Card

  • Most Radeon HD cards support vga passthrough
  • Only the Qunatro Nvidia cards support vga passthrough
  • Some Intel graphics work with vga passthrough

Software Requirements

  • XEN and KVM both support VGA passthrough, but XEN apparently offers much better performance

Sources

virt/vgapassthrough.1380980179.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/10/05 08:36 by tschulz