ponder
11-02-2012, 04:20 PM
Ok, I've been pondering. I dual boot just to play the odd game now and again in windows. It would however be cool to run windows in a VM with 3D hardware acceleration for gaming. I don't think my current hardware meets the requirements for this so maybe I should plan for a future build down the road.
My question is this, if you got one of these new sandy/ivy bridge motherboards that has a onboard Intel GPU and you have a nice nvidia GPU can Xen use the Intel GPU for the hypervisor & whatever linux OS I have on top of it and then you use the nvidia one for windows. I'm aware that with passthrough that GPU is dedicated to the VM.
This way I have the hypervisor between my hardware and two OSs (win & linux), I can game with the nvidia gpu and the intel one handles the rest as I don't have a need 3d desktop effects etc. Only issue is I have 2 LCDs though...
Any Xen gurus care to elaborate please?
My question is this, if you got one of these new sandy/ivy bridge motherboards that has a onboard Intel GPU and you have a nice nvidia GPU can Xen use the Intel GPU for the hypervisor & whatever linux OS I have on top of it and then you use the nvidia one for windows. I'm aware that with passthrough that GPU is dedicated to the VM.
This way I have the hypervisor between my hardware and two OSs (win & linux), I can game with the nvidia gpu and the intel one handles the rest as I don't have a need 3d desktop effects etc. Only issue is I have 2 LCDs though...
Any Xen gurus care to elaborate please?