Re: [Xen-users] PCI Passthrough for Windows error

["Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, billy lau <billylau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, sorry, it took me quite a while, because I was trying other ways to get
> around htis prblem, but it seems like I cannot get pass this.
>
> Attached is the output from
> lspci -tv
> lspci -xxx -vvv
> xm pci-list-assignable-devices returns nothing
> ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback*
> grep hide /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> The Linux guest taht worked before was PV.
>
> xm dmesg shows
> (XEN) HVM: VMX enabled
> and
> (XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled
> (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
>
> I'm not sure if this means iommu is disabled. If it is, what should I do to
> enable it? Thanks,
> - billy
>

There is a separate bios option to enable the IOMMU (VT-d) (IO
virtualization support)

Did you verify that your Chipset support VT-d? That is the first step.


Cheers,
Todd

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:39 PM, billy lau <billylau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Dear Xen Users,
>> >
>> > I was attempting to boot windows using hvmloader on a debian, with Vt-d
>> > enabled. However, as I try to create my windows domain, the error below
>> > occured, and I could not understand why:
>> >
>> > Error: failed to assign device: maybe the platform doesn't support VT-d,
>> > or
>> > VT-d isn't enabled properly?
>> >
>> > The problem is that I have enabled VT-d, and I did a
>> > pciback.hide=(XX:XX.X)
>> > in grub's menu.lst. Well, The passthrough seems to be working when I
>> > load a
>> > linux domU, as i managed to see the pci device in lspci in linux domU,
>> > but
>> > for windows, only this error message appeared. Can anyone help?
>> >
>>
>> Can you attach the output of:
>>
>> lspci -tv
>> lspci -xxx -vvv
>> xm pci-list-assignable-devices
>> ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback*
>> grep hide /boot/grub/menu.lst
>> Your xen command line
>>
>> Is the Linux guest that work PV or HVM?
>>
>> Are you sure that iommu support is enabled?
>> One way to check is in the output of xm dmesg
>> It should say enable or disabled for iommu.
>> (Just want to double check that case)
>>
>> check the patch on this message:
>>
>> http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=disable%20flr#query:disable%20flr+page:1+mid:7dbm675e4x4dawec+state:results
>>
>> It might be applicable, hard to say without more info.
>>
>> Hope that helps and/or sheds some light on possible problems.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Todd
>>
>> --
>> Todd Deshane
>> http://todddeshane.net
>> http://runningxen.com
>
>



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Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

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