Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] VGA passthrough problems with GeForce GTS 250 and P7Q57-M DO (also: LGA1156 boards with working VT-d)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:32:44PM +0800, "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 
?????? of Singapore" wrote:
> Dear Weidong, Pasi, and Xen developers,
> 
> The report from Andrew confirms my reports that Intel integrated
> graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough with Xen 4.0.1 and pv-ops dom0 kernel
> 2.6.32.21 is unstable.
> 

Ok.

> Please check the previous emails that I have sent to all of you.
> 

I wonder what's the best way to troubleshoot this.. 

- Is it only the HVM guest crashing? 
- No problems on dom0/hypervisor? 
- Can you re-start the crashed windows? 

-- Pasi

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> 
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> 
> On 09/20/2010 04:58 PM, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
> > I tried passing the integrated graphics adapter to the Windows domU,
> > and the monitor goes into standby when the domU is started. If I
> > enable the virtual graphics adapter, I see that Windows is
> > bluescreening on boot (this only happens if the Intel graphics driver
> > is installed). I suspect that the VT-d-related parts of the ACPI
> > tables are broken because passthrough doesn't work properly for either
> > the graphics or sound adapters (that, and Xen reports that the
> > motherboard supports none of the "optional" VT-d features like DMA
> > passthrough, etc.).
> >
> > On 9/17/10, "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) ?????? of Singapore"
> > <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> Dear Andrew,
> >>
> >> I have briefly glimpsed through the technical specifications of your
> >> ASUS motherboard.
> >>
> >> http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=XSm0g8qR5qb7UN30
> >>
> >> At present, Xen 4.0.1 only supports Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA
> >> passthrough. Add-on PCI Express x16 graphics cards are not supported
> >> yet. Patches, which are currently unavailable, have to be applied to Xen
> >> 4.0.1. You may wish to passthrough your onboard VGA instead of your
> >> NVIDIA GeForce GTS display card.
> >>
> >> I am getting stability issues in VGA passthrough with Intel integrated
> >> graphics (IGD), Xen 4.0.1, and pv-ops dom0 kernel 2.6.32.21 on my Intel
> >> Desktop Board DQ45CB. Windows XP HVM domU crashes with a BSOD within 2
> >> minutes after booting up.
> >>
> >> Please try out Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough and let
> >> me know whether you encounter any stability issues (Xen 4.0.1).
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Yours sincerely,
> >>
> >> Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) ?????? Dip(Mechatronics) 
> >> BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
> >> Engineering)
> >> Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean
> >> Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> >> Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982
> >> Facebook photos:
> >> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#!/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=photos
> >> Facebook videos:
> >> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=app_2392950137
> >> Mobile Phone (Starhub pre-paid): +65-8369-2618
> >> Windows Live Messenger: teoenming-at-hotmail.com
> >> Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
> >> ZIP: 470103
> >> My Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders (Updated
> >> 28 August 2010):-
> >> http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html
> >> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-August/295952.html
> >> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_f6a341d9623fda17880159b137c07335.xml
> >> Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) ?????? of Singapore:
> >> http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5052/mrteoenmingzhangenmingo.jpg
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 09/18/2010 12:08 PM, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I am trying to pass an eVGA GeForce GTS 250 to a Windows XP 32-bit
> >>> domU. I am using an ASUS P7Q57-M DO motherboard (with the BIOS updated
> >>> to the latest version) with a Core i5-660 processor. I am using the
> >>> current unstable version of Debian as dom0 (kernel version
> >>> 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64), with the current Debian unstable package of Xen
> >>> 4.0.1. When I boot the XP domU with graphics passthrough enabled,
> >>> nothing happens (the domU starts up, but all I see are the last boot
> >>> messages from Xen).
> >>>
> >>> I also tried passing through the onboard audio adapter to Windows XP,
> >>> and the driver loads and recognizes the adapter, but actually playing
> >>> sounds doesn't appear to work. I am not sure if the graphics
> >>> passthrough failure is related to the problem with the onboard audio
> >>> (and therefore a motherboard/CPU problem), or if it has to do with the
> >>> graphics card itself. I know that some NVIDIA cards require Xen
> >>> patches to be passed through, but I am not sure where to find patches
> >>> that will work with Xen 4.0.1 (the ones that I found were from August
> >>> 2009, and I get failed hunks when I try to apply them to Xen 4.0.1).
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody know if there are vBAR=pBAR patches available for Xen
> >>> 4.0.1 (or if they have been integrated into the current Xen
> >>> development tree)? Alternatively, if this is a motherboard problem,
> >>> does anybody know of any LGA1156 motherboards that definitely have
> >>> working VT-d?
> >>>
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