From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 19:05:29 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 43927472 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC1531AAD for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id u56so1250979wes.23 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:05:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=Litbqtido3v8+tqQ4zoYuvXTWk4Zy62xH8zFwfBRoJk=; b=qhm6uxu0HXbE/tYIHTTv4ODBQk169omA+/aAzw4B5Vjg2Jli258/sXaKl977ooAKS5 2OPWZuxoi0CwAXRI5vUgTGGfEkaO0j01G3dl2vvXYMmK2TvL3RJO4Cuks1o30VjnXwwb Fr7oHEUTfLFNtac4j5SjWH7ETiYkfwtKZc4wP+eWyavsN39JDJWOJtoUJYoGErtDUELX vrfXu0kF5BJWbvnxJKHpg5/U2HlCrxLCTGop7yzLFwQIvPY3WGnK6U21PYyjjBtlkp3n hQfSTj1LxulJGm9xZGl1RyAqi6rzD1AOtd6e1bdOUNDpoDANRc2hTIVWJjR+jupZbmcN +96Q== X-Received: by 10.194.78.4 with SMTP id x4mr2988149wjw.58.1398279927184; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:05:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.217.55.138 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:05:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140423205327.80a2b5eead661ab832fbd10a@fastmail.fm> References: <20140423205327.80a2b5eead661ab832fbd10a@fastmail.fm> From: Miguel Clara Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:05:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PCI passthrough support for VGA devices in VirtualBox on FreeBSD To: Schaich Alonso Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 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 19:05:29 -0000 VirtualBox can... I'm assuming you mean the FreeBSD port can't. In this case I would need a Windows Guest, but its a laptop and I still wan't to use the OS. I'm aware of the other options, and there's also KVM but I want the host to be FreeBSD. Xen could be an option, since its a laptop and I still want to use the host os, maybe its the most suited! I would go the bhyve path but has you said and very well only works for Linux, not windows! Anyway the main question is is if FreeBSD port of Vbox supports this, or if there's any work done or planned for this. Thanks On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Schaich Alonso wrote: > 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 >