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Re: [Xen-devel] Windows 8 VGA Passthrough



I'd focus more on why exactly do you think you need primary passthrough. Is your requirement for seeing the SeaBIOS POST and the Windows loading animation strong enough to bother with the amount of extra pain that it is going to require?

On 10/28/2013 08:31 PM, John Wargo wrote:
This sounds about right, what then is the fix though? How do i get
qemu/hvm load the right vbios? On a side note, I assume that i need to
install the mentioned patch, if so, whats the best way to apply it? (It
seems dated, and i get errors when i try to patch with it)

Sorry for asking such basic questions,
-John

On Monday, October 28, 2013, Zytaruk, Kelly <Kelly.Zytaruk@xxxxxxx
<mailto:Kelly.Zytaruk@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
 > On Sunday, October 27, 2013 1:21 PM, John Wargo wrote:
 >>I've made quite a bit of changes since my last email, and so far
here's what I've got:
 >>
 >>AMD FX6300
 >>ASUS M5A99X evo r2.0
 >>ASUS Radeon 6670 (Dom0)
 >>XFX Radeon 7850 (Win8)
 >>
 >>...
 >>
 >>Is there some sort of AMD Radeon patch I need to use (I saw one on
the wiki, but it appeared to be several years old), or is it a needed
configuration?
 >>
 >>Thanks for your time,
 >>-John
 >
 > Hi John,
 >
 > I am using XEN4.2 with QEMU-traditional and I have identified a
couple of issues in regards to passing through a video adapter as the
primary (VGA enabled) adapter.
 >
 > The patch that you referenced attempts to get around one of the
issues but it is not complete and doesn't cover all of the cases.  If
you apply the patch it will definitely help but not guaranteed to fix
all of your problems.
 >
 > The second issue is related to the fact that you are using two
different graphics adapters.  I am assuming that the Radeon 6670 is the
primary (boot/VGA) adapter and that the 7850 is the secondary.
 >
 > From reading your thread I assume that you want to pass the 7850
through to the DomU as the primary.  I have been able to do this
successfully with a few fixes.   The problem is in the way
QEMU/hvmloader handle the VBios code.  When you boot with the 6670 as
the primary the VBios code for the graphics adapter is copied to memory
at address 0xc0000.  When QEMU passes the 7850 through to the DomU it
copies VBios from 0xc0000 in Dom0 memory space into 0xc0000 in DomU
memory space.  DomU is effectively executing the VBios for the wrong
video card.  The correct fix is to have the hvmloader read a fresh copy
of VBios from the 7850 and copy it into the DomU address space at 0xc0000.
 >
 > Sometimes you can get away with executing the wrong VBios, sometimes
you get stung.
 >
 > Hope the explanation helps,
 > Kelly
 >
 >
 >


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