So, I’m getting further and further to completing my setup following the guides written about passthrough of PCIe video.
I have the video display from the domU client going to the physical display, but I cannot get the keyboard to work, I haven’t even connected a mouse yet.
I attempted to pass through the USB hubs outright, but that failed as the keyboard just stopped working. It would not respond in the domU and I could nolonger get the caps lock to light up. Reconnecting or changing ports had no effect.
Attempting to add the usb hub afterwards using xl pci-attach failed as well. But this time, it did not even attach the device.
TheOldMan ~ # xl pci-assignable-list
0000:00:0b.0
TheOldMan ~ # xl pci-attach 1 0000:00:0b.0
libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:960:do_pci_add: xc_assign_device failed
TheOldMan ~ # xl pci-assignable-list
0000:00:0b.0
TheOldMan ~ # xl pci-list 1
Vdev Device
05.0 0000:01:00.0
06.0 0000:00:0f.1
The reason I am trying to pass through the usb hub is 2 fold:
First off, I would prefer not having to go into the console to add my keyboard/mouse each time I start.
Second, I cannot seem to get into the console to save my life.
I have vnc setup for console, however after connecting, I can’t type anything. That’s not to say that the keyboard is useless. Ctrl+alt+1 and ctrl+alt+2 switch between “serial0 console” and “parallel0 console” in the vnc window. In the hopes that all it was that the echo was off, I attempted to enter the usb_add line for my keyboard to no effect.
Trying to access the console from a ssh connection in putty also fails.
TheOldMan ~ # xl console Office
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
The standard fix I found searching for this error was “start xenconsoled”. Well here is what I say about that.
TheOldMan ~ # ps augx | grep xenconsoled
root 6146 0.0 0.0 25168 1052 ? SLl 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/xenconsoled --pid-file=/var/run/xenconsoled.pid
root 6888 0.0 0.0 8148 880 pts/0 S+ 20:53 0:00 grep --colour=auto xenconsoled
Here is my config:
name="Office"
firmware_override = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder="hvm"
vcpus=2
memory=2048
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disk = [ 'tap:aio://images/xen_images/Office.img,hda,w', 'tap:aio://images/iso_images/en_windows_7_enterprise_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_677651.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
#disk = [ 'tap:aio://images/xen_images/Office.img,hda,w' ]
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:33:5E:F9, bridge=xenbr0' ]
#vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0,type=ioemu,model=e1000' ]
boot="dc"
acpi=1
xen_platform_pci=1
viridian=1
stdvga=1
vnc=1
vnclisten="192.168.1.102"
vncconsole=1
vncconsole=1
vncdisplay=0
vncunused=1
vncpasswd=""
sdl=0
usb=1
usbdevice="tablet"
gfx_passthru=1
audio=1
pci = [ '01:00.0','00:0f.1' ]
I can get more info if needed. I really want to get this project done.
MarcT
