X9SCM-F VGA Pass-through or Quadro Pass-through?

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fatality88

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Hi all - long time lurker, first time poster. :D

Am soon to take delivery of a Supermicro X9SCM-F mobo. Know there is a few people with this board in the forums so would pose the question here...

Is it possible to pass-through the on-board VGA to a VM?

If not, has anyone had any luck in passing though an nVidia Quadro card on this, or any other, motherboard?

Have successfully passed through a HD5450 on another motherboard but due to the X9SCM-F only having x8 and x4 slots, I was looking to purchase a Quadro PCIe x1 card...

Any help/experience would be appreciated...
 
So you can direct the video output of a VM to a physical display.

Along with passing through a USB controller (to take care of the keyboard, mouse and USB sound card), you can have a VM running as a workstation.

This then gets pumped into a CAT-5 KVM extender with Audio so I have a PC downstairs without a physical box (as such).
 
danswartz said:
No idea, sorry. Why do you want to do this?
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Hmmm; well, I'm about to build a highly virtualized workstation with this motherboard (if my research indicates it's a good choice), tentatively including a PNY VCQ290NVS-PCIEX1-PB Quadro NVS 290 PCIe x1 graphics adapter, and I'd like the option of isolating the X server to a VM to make the hypervisor all the smaller.

That would also make the hypervisor configuration more resemble that of a server's.
 
Not sure if this is possible or not, but it might be worth checking out RemoteFX.
 
Jesse B said:
Not sure if this is possible or not, but it might be worth checking out RemoteFX.
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Are you referring to my post or hga's?
If you are referring to mine, then it is possible (video pass-through and USB pass-though for keyboard/mouse/sound card) - I have it set up at the moment with ESXi and it works great! Would just like to know if anyone has had any experience with the X9SCM-F onboard VGA or a Quadro video card...
 
I was indeed referring to your post.

Good to know that this is possible. Sorry, must have mis-read your post :D
 
VGA pass-through is the next big bang in virtualisation (= Desktop virtualsation)
Currently it's more in the state of proof of concept.
Maybee an option in one or two years.

more
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough

Currently hardware pass-through is good for some Nics and Storage controller
and some other pci-e cards and a must to have if you want to virtualize a NAS/SAN server
so its currently a server technology not a desktop technology

Gea
 
hga said:
Hmmm; well, I'm about to build a highly virtualized workstation with this motherboard (if my research indicates it's a good choice), tentatively including a PNY VCQ290NVS-PCIEX1-PB Quadro NVS 290 PCIe x1 graphics adapter, and I'd like the option of isolating the X server to a VM to make the hypervisor all the smaller.

That would also make the hypervisor configuration more resemble that of a server's.
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Probably just should give it a try and see?
 
fatality88 said:
...If not, has anyone had any luck in passing though an nVidia Quadro card on this, or any other, motherboard?...
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Ran into this old thread, but since no-one answered this question, I thought a reply might be helpful anyway.

The Nvidia Quadro 2000 can be successfully passed through under Xen. Other Nvidia cards that have been tested are Quadro FX 3800, 4800 and 5800.

I believe all Nvidia cards that are termed "Multi-OS" should work (they do work with Parallels Workstation Extreme, according to Nvidia). See here http://www.nvidia.com/object/sli_multi_os.html. The cards listed by Nvidia are: Quadro 6000, 5000, 4000, 2000, FX 5800, FX 4800, and FX 3800.

The Quadro 600 and Quadro 410 do not support VGA passthrough (I tested the 600).
 
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