Hello peeps,
One major hold up for me in using openSuse natively is not being able to get 3d support in Xen. I need virtuals to run Visual Studio but I also play COD4 and CS:Source. Not much gaming but enough to need the fix every once in a while. I found a post here: Use Nvidia driver with Xen - openSUSE
However, this is outdated and even the reply on the discussion tab seems outdated. I use a GTS 250 card and so I need the newest nvidia driver. Does anyone have the new drivers successfully working in XEN? If so, how did you do it?
No replies? I guess this means I am SOL on getting the newest NVidia driver to work in XEN? That is really the entire question.
Just bumping this to see if anyone has got this working. You cannot compile the NVidia driver under Xen from what I understand. Correct?
I have found that compiling a driver is difficult with Xen kernel. I needed to compile the alsa sound driver with Xen kernel 11.0
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Compiling the driver with the default pae kernel was successfully but compiling with the Xen kernel was not.
I found with the help of the alsa developers that some includes of the kernel source where not correctly taken when compiling with the Xen kernel
If I remember correctly it was pci.h or smp_64.h that were not correct. I needed to copy it from
/usr/src/linux/include/asm-x86/mach-xen/asm/smp_64.h to
/usr/src/linux/include/asm-x86/smp_64.h
The error on screen was in the make (failed) but the real error occurred in the.configure step (missing reference XXXXXX undeclared)
Remember this was on opensuse 11.0 and for alsa driver
Hope this can help
Good luck