From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 18:53:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D837302 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38AB419BA for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD39720F83; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:53:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:53:25 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mesmtp; bh=3wFvVNCPF4FKXDLPB2Meh8XYbqI=; b=nIGS2YkFiTnT86jD59cvMwbpPti9 71Bss2q0tUP8FOaGBE4gl32WYnBcHfRGhj3VVWCDMl41QGbSkdUsUU/X/l5e9eSZ OsOoBfVrBzEXv9Z9fy0nziMTGjLkRHynyjrC5SC42VKIMlZPHa/7s+u5RuvRCFOM CfpRg5iJGqWbFCQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=3wFvVNCPF4FKXDLPB2Meh8 XYbqI=; b=qasrpZrgyO1sW+5/3qfhc8Tou+7puhKf6ZiCKfzMsomtssthAN3VX6 KfLDI9dbeLphCuRyISyin0paPoNLrbTbDjXTjO2vpGrmS/r2n0GCqi8f4BOlssuQ 0s7wQLZceiD/KX1dk1LF5vbTKDeQLTf7EKZdTJUgidKcekppsVvSc= X-Sasl-enc: 7s3cVAMJ5vz5VQ0++6qT39DZdjqs6QOSipJwrFi+zcfb 1398279205 Received: from skysong.divine.net (unknown [109.192.195.65]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id F186A680190; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:53:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:53:27 +0200 From: Schaich Alonso To: miguelmclara@gmail.com Subject: Re: PCI passthrough support for VGA devices in VirtualBox on FreeBSD Message-Id: <20140423205327.80a2b5eead661ab832fbd10a@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:53:27 -0000 On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Miguel Clara wrote: > > > Looking to do the same... > > I have a laptop with dual graphics, Its one of those with Intel i7 CPU + > Integrated Graphics but also ships with a AMD dedicated card! > > I cannot use the AMD card successfully with KMS anyway, and I would prefer > to pass the card to a Winodows/Linux VM. > > Is there any work on this in FreeBSD's Vbox port? > > Thanks > > VirtualBox can't do that. If you need only GNU/Linux VMs you can use bhyve with PCI Forwarding ( see https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/pci_passthru ). Otherwise, I think you'll have to resort to Xen or VMWare ESXi (or eventually Microsoft's VirtualPC). Alonso