RE: [Xen-devel] How to switch VGA passthrough live

["Roger Cruz" <roger.cruz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would be interested in learning if this is a successful strategy as well.  If you could please share with the list any methods on how you may get this to work, that would be great.  I am assuming that your dom0 would be headless and not use the graphics card, right?

 

Roger

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Subject: [Xen-devel] How to switch VGA passthrough live

Hi,

 

I want to switch video card live between two HVMs. My simplest idea is that when the HVM has the permission to access passthrough video card, and another HVM will be paused. If switch from A to B, execute commands :

 

xm pause A ;

xm pci-detach A  00:00:02.0 ;

xm pci-attach B 00:00:02.0 ;

xm unpause B.

 

I have a try, but failed. The pseudo-code is as below. Can you give me some ideas? Any suggestions will be thankful.

 

Execute “xm pci-detach Domain 00:00:02.0”:

1.       Raise sci interrupt to unplug the device. If OSPM doesn’t handle the unplug process, and then invoke acpi_php_writeb to power off the device.

2.       Modify power_off_php_devfn function:

int power_off_php_devfn(int php_devfn)

{

                    If(php_devfn == 0x10)  // Intel integrated graphics

                    {

                             p = & dpci_infos.php_devs[php_devfn];

 

       // save the two-tuples : (php_dev, domid)

       save_php_device_by_domid(p,domid);

                  

       // hide the device from bus and dpci_infos

                             pci_hide_device(& p->pt_dev->dev);

                             memset(p,0x00,sizeof(struct php_dev));

 

                             return 0;

                    }

    return unregister_real_device(php_devfn);

}

 

Execute “xm pci-attach Domain 00:00:02.0”:

1.       Modify power_on_php_devfn function:

int power_off_php_devfn(int devfn)

{

           ….

           while(devfn == 0x10) // Intel integrated graphics

           {

                    if( ! get_php_device_by_domid(p,domid) ) // get saved php_dev struct

                             break;                                     // cannot get , create new one

 

                    //restore the php device to bus and dpci_infos

                    restore_php_device(p,devfn);         // restore dpci_infos.php_devs[devfn]

                    dpci_infos->e_bus->devices[devfn] = p-> pt_dev->dev;

 

                    return 0;

           }

 

           if (!dpci_infos.pci_access)

           {…}

           pt_dev = register_real_device(..);

  return 0;

}

 

This plan hides the VGA device from HVM and never destroys it. Both mmio and pio maps are reserved. When finishing “xm unpause B”, it seems working well observed by Dom0 serial port login. But the screen is black and cannot receive any signal. I am confusing. Video BIOS should be reloaded? Or need raise some interrupt to flush screen?

 

 

Thanks & Regards,
Yujiageng

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