Mark Johnson wrote: > >> Then I upgraded the nvidia driver to the current beta, same issues. > > They are not the same driver :-) The driver on the > nVidia site needs to work on s10, and all versions > of Nevada. > > The driver included with OpenSolaris is modified > to know about Xen and will not work on older > versions of Solaris. Not true. The driver I deliver to Nevada/OpenSolaris is supposed to work all the way back to S10 GA. AFAIK, I've only broken S10 support once (a Makefile goof that won't happen again). This driver also has xVM support enabled conditionally, so it should "just work" if/when xVM graphics support is back ported to S10.
As of this writing, none of the graphics drivers at the NVIDIA download site have xVM support. xVM support is only available in the drivers delivered by Sun. If you load a driver directly from NVIDIA and boot dom0, assume bad things will happen. > > You should not see the same performance running on > metal vs running on Xen (running on Xen should be > slower). There will always be performance lost > going through the hypervisor and we don't use the > PAT in the i86xpv kernel (on top of Xen) today. > Unless you hit this problem: 6661292 nv_devmap errors running Boing screen saver the worst case hit I've seen running xVM dom0 is 50%, not a couple of orders of magnitude. This bug is fixed in the 169.11 driver delivered to b83. If Attila can privately send me the output of /usr/bin/nvidia-SunOS-bug-report.sh after glxgears shows single digit frame rates, I will investigate. _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
