Hi Boris, We have GPU passthrough working with NVIDIA GPUs in Xen 4.1.2, if I recall correctly. We don't yet have a stable Xen + Libvirt installation working, but we're looking at it. Perhaps it would be worth collaborating since it sounds like this could be a win for both of us.
best, JP On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Boris-Michel Deschenes wrote: > That would be great Jim, > > I've built a cloud that uses CentOS+libvirt+Xen 4.1.3 to do GPU passthrough > and I just love to be able to use libvirt with Xen, this setup makes a lot of > sense to me since our main, bigger cloud is the standard libvirt+KVM, using > libvirt across the board is great for us. > > I'm following your work closely, the GPU cloud is still using libvirt+xend > but when I move to Xen 4.2 my understanding is that I will need libvirt+xl > (xenlight) so I guess there's still some work to be done in libvirt there... > > The reason I want to move to Xen 4.2 is the GPU passthrough of NVIDIA GPUs... > currently, with Xen 4.1.3, I successfully passthrough ATI GPUs only. > > Boris > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : openstack-bounces+boris-michel.deschenes=ubisoft....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+boris-michel.deschenes=ubisoft....@lists.launchpad.net] > De la part de Jim Fehlig > Envoyé : 18 juillet 2012 17:56 > À : John Garbutt > Cc : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Objet : Re: [Openstack] What is the most commonly used Hypervisor and toolset > combination? > > John Garbutt wrote: >> To my knowledge, if you want to use Xen, using XCP or XenServer (i.e. using >> XenAPI driver) is the way to go. If you look at the contributions to the >> drivers, you can have a good guess at who is using them. >> >> I know people are going into production on XenAPI, not heard about >> Xen+libvirt in production. Having said this, I have seen some fixes to >> Folsom around Xen + libvirt, I think from SUSE? >> > > Yes, I'm slowly working on improving support for xen.org Xen via the libvirt > driver and hope to have these improvements in for the Folsom release. > > Regards, > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
