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Re: [Xen-users] Help with VGA passthrough


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I’ve read through these, however I’m on xenserver 6.2 and would rather not hack the ramdisk because any future update would obliterate that (most likely).

 

Per gordon’s request, I’ve reset my system back to factory and here are the lspci/dmesg/xl dmesg.

 

I can confirm that I do not load any radeon or radeon related drivers in dom0, however I cannot seem to hide the pci bus for it. Are the modules missing for XenServer 6.2 (xen 4.1.5) ?

 

Not sure if attachments are acceptable, so I’m going to put links to pastebin.

 

xl dmesg:

http://pastebin.com/BTB5DNQJ

 

lspci –vvv

http://pastebin.com/t7paAyBa

 

lsmod

http://pastebin.com/tZTA5T4K

 

dmesg

http://pastebin.com/hiGcq9GS

 

The citrix support guide says nothing about hiding the device at all (which I tried the extboot.conf stuff to hide the pci devices to no avail).

 

If there’s a way to confirm xen-pcihide or whichever it is (many articles .. two names, not sure which is right) as loaded on xenserver 6.2 that’d be appreciated.

 

I have in blacklist.conf:

blacklist radeon

blacklist fglrx

 

We shouldn’t ever touch those two modules… so I should be good for passthrough right?

 

I’m basically starting from ground zero at this time. Thanks for the help.

 

- Brian Menges

Principal Engineer, DevOps

GoGrid | ServePath | ColoServe | UpStream Networks

 

From: H. Sieger [mailto:powerhouse.linux@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 05:01
To: Brian Menges; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Help with VGA passthrough

 

In addition to the suggestions given before, here some information sources:

 

Both posts above specifically deal with the AMD 6450 graphics card. I use the initramfs method to bind the graphics card to pciback as explained in HOW-TO make dual-boot obsolete using XEN VGA passthrough, step 11.

 

Hope it helps.

 

On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 4:51 AM, Brian Menges <bmenges@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 


I'm trying to get vga passthrough to operate normally and have been rather unsuccessful despite attempting to replicate hardware stated to work much reading about the mail list and wiki.

Setup:
Xenserver 6.2 SP1 (all patches)
ATI Radeon HD 6450
ThinkCentre M series with Core i5

I've read:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135811http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135811
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough

The GPU assignment to the HVM works fine through both api and gui (xencenter), however the domU can't initialize it. I've tried pciback.hide and xen-pciback.hide for the pci buses the ati card shows up as, however to no avail and results in it unable to use the gpu.

Dmesg about the pci bus (01:00.0 and 01:00.1):
[    4.225073] Kernel command line: root=LABEL=root-lsodryqz ro xencons=hvc console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash xen-pciback.permissive xen-pciback.hide=(01:00.0)(01:00.1) pci=resource_alignment=01:00.0;01:00.1
[    4.790356] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 10 64bit mmio pref: [0xd0000000-0xdfffffff]
[    4.790369] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 18 64bit mmio: [0xfe420000-0xfe43ffff]
[    4.790376] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 20 io port: [0xe000-0xe0ff]
[    4.790389] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 30 32bit mmio pref: [0xfe400000-0xfe41ffff]
[    4.790394] pci 0000:01:00.0: Disabling memory decoding and releasing memory resources.
[    4.790425] pci 0000:01:00.0: supports D1 D2
[    4.790479] pci 0000:01:00.1: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xfe440000-0xfe443fff]
[    4.790513] pci 0000:01:00.1: Disabling memory decoding and releasing memory resources.
[    4.790543] pci 0000:01:00.1: supports D1 D2
[    4.794119] vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:01:00.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none

When I assign it to a linux domU (yes, HVM):
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM]
00:06.0 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series]

[    5.246901] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (CAICOS 0x1002:0x6779 0x1682:0x3207).
[    5.246970] [drm] register mmio base: 0xF3000000
[    5.246972] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
[    5.246996] radeon 0000:00:05.0: Expecting atombios for evergreen GPU
[    5.247053] radeon 0000:00:05.0: Fatal error during GPU init
[    5.247100] [drm] radeon: finishing device.
[    5.247102] [TTM] Memory type 2 has not been initialized
[    5.256465] radeon: probe of 0000:00:05.0 failed with error -22
[    5.386743] xen: --> pirq=17 -> irq=41 (gsi=41)

Here's dom0's extboot.conf for xe's boot:
label xe
  # XenServer
  kernel mboot.c32
  append /boot/xen.gz mem=1024G dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0_mem=2048M,max:2048M watchdog_timeout=300 lowmem_emergency_pool=1M crashkernel=64M@32M cpuid_mask_xsave_eax=0 console=vga vga=mode-0x0311 --- /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=LABEL=root-lsodryqz ro xencons=hvc console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash xen-pciback.permissive xen-pciback.hide=(01:00.0)(01:00.1) pci=resource_alignment=01:00.0;01:00.1 --- /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img

So I've hidden them, however they're still showing up on dom0 and failing init on domU.

Can anyone provide some help?

- Brian Menges
Principal Engineer, DevOps
GoGrid | ServePath | ColoServe | UpStream Networks

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