From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 19:07:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66CA94D2 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x22c.google.com (mail-we0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22c]) (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 EF3A51AC1 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id t61so1294247wes.31 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:07:29 -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=hCFtYQZZeBTZ6ubhn3iX9NuwvP1vB/HVSyi1P832Sp4=; b=SKGNmhZsMmEMsmj8GwH9IBnyMKD5ThV55raOBjGiTOdRip8mH8SC5NljfccoC/FU73 lKjk2sAuyRctpkFQMVY6APvb4sKZNM0X8tsYSnkVhy9tHmDEmOS36pmkDoq9sy07qq0p aJdlXXsT0oYJzFxinXpPz4r6yYUZzu0C+l/1n693EHYhl1UOXU7zlu4eFs8AeTbciUrC QkRrk/tjZX8/FouQUuYWGfw09vpPPkP6t6b9sTbLc2KAgWYla+0Nx277xpfpzRIo+R6C 9lZ+pauaqE3doi3yhAVmCsHnWmcAvtzSTE6kpfPbL9d6dINiyw524nco9okQK34XUohi GvSw== X-Received: by 10.180.7.227 with SMTP id m3mr2939392wia.59.1398280049156; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:07:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.217.55.138 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:07:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20140423205327.80a2b5eead661ab832fbd10a@fastmail.fm> From: Miguel Clara Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:07:09 +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 19:07:31 -0000 Actually Xen is not really a suitable option if I want to keep FreeBSD has host, AFAIK dom0 support is just being added and its not really usable yet! On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Miguel Clara wrote: > 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 >> > >