How to use PCI card

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Stefanoreves
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Joined: 5. Mar 2010, 14:28
Primary OS: Ubuntu other
VBox Version: OSE Debian
Guest OSses: WinXP

How to use PCI card

Post by Stefanoreves »

Illustrious friends.
I've installed winXP in virtualbox (Ubuntu 9.10 host). I need to run a pinnacle PCI card. Is it possible? :?:

Thank you very much,
Your friend, Stefano
towo
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Joined: 19. Dec 2007, 10:59

Re: How to use PCI card

Post by towo »

You can't use any pci-card in vbox, because vbox does not support pci-passthrough.
marcmagrans
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Joined: 16. Mar 2010, 16:05
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: OSE other
Guest OSses: Scientific Linux 4

Re: How to use PCI card

Post by marcmagrans »

Hi,

I have a similar request.

I would like to control the hardware through a PCI-VME bridge. The guest operating system of VirtualBox will be a variant of Red Hat Linux named Scientific Linux 4. Is it possible to extend the VirtualBox in order to use the PCI card on the host PC?

In some forum I have read that there is a Pluggable Device Manager architecture that could help on that task. I wonder where can I found documentation/examples about that.

Thank you very much!
marc
towo
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Re: How to use PCI card

Post by towo »

Is it possible to extend the VirtualBox in order to use the PCI card on the host PC?
Maybe if you write a patch for vbox, that it has pci-passthrough.
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