Is it possible to power off a PCIe video card/slot? (eg. hot-plug)

Posted by CR. on Super User See other posts from Super User or by CR.
Published on 2012-07-05T19:55:28Z Indexed on 2012/07/05 21:18 UTC
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I'm looking at building a system that supports VT-d so I can pass through a high powered loud video card to a Xen/KVM/whatever VM (host will be Linux based). However, when I'm not using the VM I want to turn the video card off so its fan does not run. The card will not be used when the VM isn't running.

Anyone know if this is possible? The PCI-Express hot-plug specification allows cutting power to specific slots but I have never heard of anyone doing it with a video card and my searches for information have turned up nothing.

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