[vfio-users] VGA passthrough on a ultrabook

Quentin Deldycke quentindeldycke at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 07:11:23 UTC 2016


This is not possible.

Optimus laptop? No output is linked to the Nvidia card, it output on a
virtual framebuffer the Intel can read.

Forget about it :)

On 29 Jul 2016 9:09 a.m., "Drazen Leovac" <drazen.leovac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> Just need few tips where to start.
>
> I have this ultrabook
> <https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-UX303UB/specifications/>
> (mobile i7 skylake 6500u, 12gb of ram, ssd, intel hd520 on board + nvidia
> 940m graphics) and I would like to create a VM with VGA passthrough so I
> can virtualize WIN OS (probably 7 or 8.1) with an option to run VM on my
> laptop display and on the external monitor via Display Port (only one of
> them will be active at the time. I'm not trying to have active both of
> displays).
>
> Please, tell me if anyone of you tried to do this kind of thing on a
> mobile platform and how successful it was?
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Drazen
>
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