Re: [Xen-users] Successful Xen VGA Passthrough with Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6450 Display Card

[Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Does rebooting domU with ATI GPUs still result in GPU crashes, degraded 
performance and sometimes complete dom0 crashes? Are you using a stack that 
implements bus resets to reset the device?

On 5 Sep 2014 20:22, Teo En Ming <singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04/09/2014 13:29, Teo En Ming wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I would like to report successful Xen VGA Passthrough with Sapphire 
> > AMD Radeon HD 6450 display card. 
> > 
> > Details are as follows: 
> > 
> > Host operating system dom0: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 
> > Linux kernel: self-compiled 3.16.1 
> > Xen hypervisor: self-compiled 4.4.1 
> > Guest operating system domU: Windows 7 Ultimate HVM domU 
> > Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6450 Driver DVD: INSTALLED 
> > 
> > Please refer to the attached file amd.txt for installation details. I 
> > will write a more detailed installation guide later on. Stay tuned. 
> > 
> > Also please refer to attached screenshot showing that AMD RADEON HD 
> > 6450 in Display Manager DOES NOT have error code 43. There is NO 
> > yellow exclamation mark beside the AMD Radeon HD 6450 in Display 
> > Manager. Xen VGA Passthrough is fully successful. 
> > 
> > Screenshot URL: 
> > 
> > http://i.imgur.com/y2tsNsH.jpg 
> > 
> > I would like to report that Xen VGA Passthrough with Windows 8 HVM 
> > domU is NOT successful. Although Windows 8 HVM domU can boot up 
> > successfully initially with successful VGA passthrough, it 
> > SUBSEQUENTLY keeps rebooting forever whenever I tried to start Windows 
> > 8 HVM domU. 
> > 
> > Currently I have a problem. Although I passed through the USB 
> > controllers, the USB keyboard and USB mouse is not working. I need to 
> > open a VNC Viewer to Windows 7 HVM domU and control the USB mouse from 
> > within the VNC Viewer. This is not ideal. Please help me with this 
> > problem so that I can use the USB mouse and USB keyboard directly 
> > within Windows 7 HVM domU. 
> > 
> > Thank you very much. 
> > 
> > Yours sincerely, 
> > 
> > Teo En Ming 
>
> Hi, 
>
> I would like to report that I have solved the infinite rebooting problem 
> with Windows 8 HVM domU. I have re-installed Windows 8 HVM domU from 
> scratch. I can now say that Xen VGA Passthrough with Sapphire AMD Radeon 
> HD 6450 display card is successful with Windows 8 HVM domU. 
>
> Please refer to attached PDF installation guide for more details. 
>
> Thank you very much. 
>
> -- 
> Yours sincerely, 
>
> Teo En Ming 
> Singapore 
>
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