Re: [Xen-users] GPU passthrough with xen 4.2.1 on ubuntu 12.10

[Matthew Dean <mcd40@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can report some more success and a little bit of failure.  I added the 
second GPU and was able to simultaneously do primary passthrough of the 
two cards to two different domUs.  I have however noticed a problem with 
passthrough that seems to exist regardless of how many GPUs I have 
plugged in.  Whenever I shutdown a domU, which has a passed through GPU, 
and then start it up again my entire dom0 locks out and I have to hard 
reset the whole box.  To get around this I instead have to shutdown all 
of my domUs and then restart the whole box before starting them up 
again.  For me this is not a massive issue as the end game is to have 
the vms running all the time without need for regular restarting but it 
is an issue none the less.  I'm going to take a break from this for now 
but will come back to it in a couple of weeks, I just thought I'd let 
people know my experiences. Thanks again for everybody's help.
Matt

On 13/03/2013 21:06, Matthias wrote:
> Congrats!
>
> But so you don't get overly excited, dual vga passthrough sems to be
> broken at the moment. Been down that road (Thread:
> http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/dual-vga-passthrough-issue-in-xen-unstable-td5714613.html),
> posted to xen-user and xen-devel, but never got a response.
>
> Would be interesting to see if it works for you.
>
> Oh, and just for my record-keeping: Have you used my patch or the
> original one from Greg?
>
> 2013/3/13 Matthew Dean <mcd40@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Just to let everyone know that patch worked like gold for me.  My HD 7970 is
> > now being passed through as the primary adapter with driver version 13.1 and
> > up to now all seems to be working.  Will run further tests over the next few
> > days to make sure it stays that way and I'll probably test secondary
> > passthrough also.  Once that's done I need to put the second card back in
> > and have a bit of a play but this is by far the furthest I've been in the
> > last 2 weeks.  Thanks to everybody for your advice.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > On 12/03/2013 19:42, Matthias wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > to fix the atikmeq.sys bug, you can try two things:
> > >
> > > 1) Use upstream qemu. For this, just add:
> > >
> > > device_model_version = 'qemu-xen'
> > > device_model_override = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386'
> > >
> > > to your domU config file. Note that there is currently a bug that the
> > > domU won't start when duing vga passthrough with more then 4GB memory
> > > assigned, so better use some less..
> > >
> > > 2) If you want to have more then 4GB memory, you can patch the
> > > traditional qemu. This is a bit more complicated cause the qemu stuff
> > > is download through the build and can't be patched right away. Also
> > > stopping in mid build, patching and continuing at least for me caused
> > > some problems, so doing a full build, patch, cleanup and build again
> > > is the safer route:
> > >
> > > git clone -b staging git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git xen-unstable-staging
> > > cd xen-unstable-staging
> > > ./configure --disable-stubdom
> > > make -j12 world
> > > git apply --check /path/to/xen-unstable-atipassthrough.patch
> > > git apply /path/to/xen-unstable-atipassthrough.patch
> > > make -j12 clean
> > > make -j12 world
> > > Now do your usual install.. some use the standard, i prefer creating a
> > > debball..
> > >
> > > Some Notes:
> > > - I use the staging branch from xen-unstable, but this is not exactly
> > > necessary for the patch, you can use master just as fine
> > > - the j12 is for multithreading and you should use double your core
> > > number.. since i got 6 cpu cores, it's 12 for me..
> > > - the patch i have attached is originally from Greg
> > > (http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-12/msg00009.html),
> > > so credit goes to him, i only cleaned it up for xen-unstable. Also,
> > > the patch itself was for providing primary passthrough with ATI cards,
> > > but i found it fixing my ati 0x116 bluescreen..
> > > - due to an insufficiancy in the patch, stubdom would not build
> > > correctly, so you have to disable it
> > >
> > > Please report back if the patch fixes your bluescreen for more
> > > argumentation to bring this patch upstream.. :)  (@Greg: that's why i
> > > cc'ed you. hope you don't mind the noise)
> > >
> > > Hope it helps!
> >
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