Hello,
I have an Intel DQ45CB mobo with VT-d enabled in the BIOS, with 4 GB RAM, an on-board Intel GMA 4500 graphic card, one PCIe 2.0 x16, two PCIe x1 and one PCI conventional bus connector.
I would like to play some older (before 2008) Windows XP Home (32bit) games on the guest OS and use the Ubuntu 11 (32bit or 64bit) guest OS for some development stuff.
Which extra graphic cards (one PCIe 2.0 x16 connector on mobo) would you recommend for pass-through to the DomU?
Is a graphic card for the PCIe 2.0 x16 bus connector the preferred choice here?
With the latest PVE, do I have to adjust something during/ after the installation (kernel patches, loading modules etc.)?
According to the Intel tech specs, the on-board GMA will be disabled when an extra graphic card is added.
Does this mean that I cannot see the Dom0, when I pass-through the extra graphic card to the DomU?
If yes, do I then have to add yet another extra graphic card to the mobo just for the Dom0?
Which graphic card would you recommend for that purpose, i.e. just to see the host (Dom0) for maintenance?
Or is maintenance from within the private network (I have a Macbook, too) a possible solution for this, so I would not need a graphic card for the Dom0?
Thanks for your kind help, and please also apologize if I have misunderstood or written something not clear enough.
I have an Intel DQ45CB mobo with VT-d enabled in the BIOS, with 4 GB RAM, an on-board Intel GMA 4500 graphic card, one PCIe 2.0 x16, two PCIe x1 and one PCI conventional bus connector.
I would like to play some older (before 2008) Windows XP Home (32bit) games on the guest OS and use the Ubuntu 11 (32bit or 64bit) guest OS for some development stuff.
Which extra graphic cards (one PCIe 2.0 x16 connector on mobo) would you recommend for pass-through to the DomU?
Is a graphic card for the PCIe 2.0 x16 bus connector the preferred choice here?
With the latest PVE, do I have to adjust something during/ after the installation (kernel patches, loading modules etc.)?
According to the Intel tech specs, the on-board GMA will be disabled when an extra graphic card is added.
Does this mean that I cannot see the Dom0, when I pass-through the extra graphic card to the DomU?
If yes, do I then have to add yet another extra graphic card to the mobo just for the Dom0?
Which graphic card would you recommend for that purpose, i.e. just to see the host (Dom0) for maintenance?
Or is maintenance from within the private network (I have a Macbook, too) a possible solution for this, so I would not need a graphic card for the Dom0?
Thanks for your kind help, and please also apologize if I have misunderstood or written something not clear enough.