libvirt users - Feb 2016 - Re: GPU passthrough - MSI R9 380 4GB, works only ONCE

Hello guys,

I have a problem when using my MSI R9 380 4G graphic card as GPU
passthrough with KVM.

At the first linux boot (Fedora 23) I am able to successfully start virtual
machine and it works!

However if i will shut down virtual machine and start it again - the screen
will stay blank!

So far I have been able to find on the internet that some graphic cards
just can not reinitialize itself when there is no power off/on, which could
be the case of mine as well.
Also I am very much surprised that this graphic card has no UEFI rom!

Any help would be appreciated



[root@brutus-coreos ~]# virsh start winos1
Domain winos1 started


dmesg output after second boot of the virtual machine winos1


[  338.346776] input: Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-10/1-10:1.0/0003:045E:0800.0007/input/input23
[  338.397715] hid-generic 0003:045E:0800.0007: input,hidraw0: USB HID
v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0] on
usb-0000:00:14.0-10/input0
[  338.402847] input: Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-10/1-10:1.1/0003:045E:0800.0008/input/input24
[  338.403605] hid-generic 0003:045E:0800.0008: input,hidraw1: USB HID
v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0] on
usb-0000:00:14.0-10/input1
[  338.419310] input: Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-10/1-10:1.2/0003:045E:0800.0009/input/input25
[  338.470855] hid-generic 0003:045E:0800.0009: input,hiddev0,hidraw2: USB
HID v1.11 Device [Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0] on
usb-0000:00:14.0-10/input2
[  754.055255] vgaarb: device changed decodes:
PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=none
[  754.087966] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: remove, state 4
[  754.087982] usb usb2: USB disconnect, device number 1
[  754.090201] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: USB bus 2 deregistered
[  754.090399] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: remove, state 1
[  754.090409] usb usb1: USB disconnect, device number 1
[  754.090413] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
[  754.090964] usb 1-8: USB disconnect, device number 3
[  754.091904] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 4
[  754.222281] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: USB bus 1 deregistered
[  755.359725] vfio_ecap_init: 0000:01:00.0 hiding ecap 0x19@0x270
[  755.359733] vfio_ecap_init: 0000:01:00.0 hiding ecap 0x1b@0x2d0
[  755.384598] vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[  755.485743] vfio_ecap_init: 0000:03:00.0 hiding ecap 0x1e@0x154


screen is blank - I have to reboot my Linux machine in order to be able to
start this virtual machine once again


David Hlacik

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On 02/07/2016 12:04 PM, David Hlacik wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I have a problem when using my MSI R9 380 4G graphic card as GPU 
> passthrough with KVM.
>
> At the first linux boot (Fedora 23) I am able to successfully start 
> virtual machine and it works!
>
> However if i will shut down virtual machine and start it again - the 
> screen will stay blank!
>
> So far I have been able to find on the internet that some graphic 
> cards just can not reinitialize itself when there is no power off/on, 
> which could be the case of mine as well.
This ^^^. I hit reply to tell you this, but you've already learned it 
for yourself. AFAIK, there is no solution for this problem (other than 
to buy a different brand of GPU - read everything on 
http://vfio.blogspot.com for advice).

Thank you man. Appreciate it.

David
On Feb 8, 2016 10:59 PM, "Laine Stump" <laine@laine.org> wrote:
> On 02/07/2016 12:04 PM, David Hlacik wrote:
>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I have a problem when using my MSI R9 380 4G graphic card as GPU
>> passthrough with KVM.
>>
>> At the first linux boot (Fedora 23) I am able to successfully start
>> virtual machine and it works!
>>
>> However if i will shut down virtual machine and start it again - the
>> screen will stay blank!
>>
>> So far I have been able to find on the internet that some graphic cards
>> just can not reinitialize itself when there is no power off/on, which
could
>> be the case of mine as well.
>>
>
> This ^^^. I hit reply to tell you this, but you've already learned it
for
> yourself. AFAIK, there is no solution for this problem (other than to buy a
> different brand of GPU - read everything on http://vfio.blogspot.com for
> advice).
>
>