Re: [Xen-users] can't passthrough video card

[bob evans <b.evans@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gordan@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:14:06 +0000
> To: b.evans@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] can't passthrough video card
> 
> On 10/28/2013 07:08 AM, bob evans wrote:
>> Hi Gordan, thank you very much for your reply.
>> 
>>> 1) Put something like this in your /etc/modprobe.d/xen-pciback.conf (or
>>> equivalent on your distro)
>>> 
>>> options xen-pciback hide=(08:00.0)(08:00.1)
>>> 
>>> where 08:00.0 and 08:00.1 are PCI IDs of the device in question.
>>> Alternatively, you may need to do the equivalent of this on your kernel
>>> boot line if your xen-pciback module is built into the kernel.
>> 
>> Ok, I've done this now.
>> 
>>> If any of the devices were bound to a different driver first, for those
>>> devices it is easier to do something like:
>>> 
>>> xl pci-assignable-remove 0000:08.00.0
>>> 
>>> instead of what you did above.
>> 
>> I switched from xm to xl, when I try this command it gives me this
>> error: pci-assignable-remove: malformed BDF specification "0000:02.00.0"
>> I also tried it with the format 02.00.0, and I tried it with
>> pci-assignable-add, and I also tried it with another device.
> 
> My bad - that should have been 0000:02:00.0 rather than 0000:02.00.0
> (note the 2nd colon).
> 
>>> This is a problem - if the radeon driver has already initialized the
>>> card, it's not going to work. ATI cards' BIOS and drivers aren't good
>>> enough to handle this situation properly.
>>> 
>> 
>> So I should blacklist the radeon driver then right? I can do this
>> because only my AMD graphics card uses this driver. I'm not sure what to
>> do about the HDMI sound device though, because I have many components
>> using that driver.
> 
> You'll have to pass both through to the domU, but HDMI audio device
> being tainted by the snd-hda-intel driver doesn't seem to break it
> completely.
> 
> Gordan
> 
> P.S.
> Any particular reason why you left out the list from the recipient list?

Sorry, I didn't mean to leave the list out. Your new command is working for me, 
now I only need to figure out how to blacklist the radeon driver. I can figure 
that out with the help of Google probably. Thanks so much for your help! I also 
found that using the format "xl pci-assignable-add 002:0.01" worked for me. 
When I tried to add the video device that was already bound to the Linux kernel 
driver I had a segmentation fault, probably because it was already bound to a 
driver. I tried again after the segmentation fault and get these errors:


libxl: warning: libxl_pci.c:654:libxl__device_pci_assignable_add: 0000:02:00.0 
not bound to a driver, will not be rebound.
libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:350:sysfs_write_bdf: write to 
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind returned -1: No such device
libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:535:pciback_dev_assign: Couldn't bind device to 
pciback!: No such device
libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:659:libxl__device_pci_assignable_add: Couldn't bind 
device to pciback!

I was able to pass the audio device without a problem though so I'm much closer 
now thanks to your help. I think the reason for the segmentation fault is 
because I didn't unbind it from the radeon driver first. Because this 
information was very good and helped me solve my problem I will resend my 
message to you to the mailing list so others can see it. I'm going to work on 
trying to configure this more now, I might come back and ask for more help 
later but for right now you seem to have set me in the right direction. At 
least I am making progress again!

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