Re: [Xen-users] VGA Passthrough Grabs Wrong Device

[Russ Pavlicek <russell.pavlicek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone else has the same problem:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152296/prevent-dom0-igp-from-being-vga-passed-through-to-hvm-host-with-xen4-4

Does anyone have even a workaround?  When the DomU corrupts the Dom0 X
server, there is no known way to recover.  Is there a way to reset it?
 Or better yet, keep this from happening in the first place?

Russ

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Russ Pavlicek
<russell.pavlicek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This question comes from Germano on the Q&A system on XenProject.org.
> It looks similar to a question on stackoverflow from a couple months
> back, which got no answer.  Is there a solution for this issue?
>
> http://xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/vga-passthrough-grabs-wrong-device.html
>
> ==
> I've succesfully set up VGA passthrough with a Quadro 4000 and
> everything is working great.
>
> My motherboard is a SuperMicro H8DGi/F with 2x opterons 6140, an
> onboard Matrox G200 and a discrete Quadro 4000. On guest startup xl
> complains the Quadro, sound device, usb controller, keyboard and mouse
> dont support FLR, but keeps on going just fine anyway...
>
> Dom0 is Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS with xen 4.4
>
> I have 2 monitors, one is connected to the Quadro, the other to the
> onboard G200, Bios have been set to boot from the Matrox G200 and the
> integrated Matrox is the one I use for Dom0 control.
>
> DomU is HVM win7 Pro x64, NV driver latest quadro
>
> I had to setup the Quadro as the _primary_ adapter, (gfx_passthrough =
> 1) otherwise the NV driver in win7 would randomly (and pretty easily)
> crash even after trivial operations like a window resize. If the
> Quadro is the primary adapter, there is no problem whatsoever.
>
> The annoying part of having it as the primary adapter is that it boots
> from the Matrox (and the connected monitor), and keeps using the
> onboard Matrox until the windows logo shows up, from that point on it
> switches to the Quadro, Keyboard and mouse also are PCI passed-through
> only _after_ the window logo shows up.
>
> This is not a problem per se, since I dont use more than a single VM
> at once, it is just annoying because a) Im left with no Dom0 screen,
> and b) the onboard Matrox is not reset after guest shutdown, so I have
> to SSH to get control of the systemm or type without seeing anything.
>
> Note that the onboard Matrox is nevere referenced in the guest
> configuration file, I dont get why xen takes it anyway..
>
> Is there a way to avoid switching to the integrated Matrox at first,
> or at least to reset it somehow? I tried difefrent things (like echo 1
>> /sys/bus/pci/devices//reset) but with no luck..
> ==
>
> Hoping someone has some insight on this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russ

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