Mikhail Savchenko
2009-Aug-26 09:09 UTC
[Xen-devel] Re: Xen-devel Digest, Vol 54, Issue 203
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RE: nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA PassThroughto > Windows XP Home 32-bit HVM Virtual Machine with Intel Desktop > BoardDQ45CB (djmagee@mageenet.net) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:57:24 -0400 > From: <djmagee@mageenet.net> > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA > PassThroughto Windows XP Home 32-bit HVM Virtual Machine with Intel > Desktop BoardDQ45CB > To: "Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@gmail.com> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > Message-ID: > <EECC125FCE18E740AF561189E126028575B4@mnetexch2.adamapps.host> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Here are the patches I used. > > The file ending with a timestamp is the set of patches that was > posted on xen-devel a couple of months ago by someone with a similar > H/W set up and goals. I applied this to my xen-3.4-testing tree as > is. > > As I mentioned I''m using a xenified 2.6.29.6. Of course, I had no > idea what parts of the kernel code in that patch I needed to apply > to this much newer kernel, so I just tried as is. It failed > patching include/linux/pci_regs.h. I saw that most of the stuff in > the vgapt patch was already in the 2.6.29 kernel, but some of the > PCI_AF_* defines had different values. Vga-pt-patch-2.6.29.6- > pci_regs.patch is my patch to that file, and vga-pt-patch-kernel- > only contains the kernel patches from the original file but after a > global replace to make sure they used the slightly different > PCI_AF_* names. I simply made sure that the values would end up the > same as they would have been in the 2.6.18-xen kernel. I wouldn''t > know if this was the right approach. > > I did not apply the FLR patch that is in xen-unstable, and I was > under the impression the same capability is in the patch I''ve > attached. For what it''s worth, when I start a guest with the video > card assigned and vga_passthrough=1, I can hear the fan on the video > card spin up for a few seconds just as it does when the real machine > (re)boots. > > If I (or my test environment) can be of any assistance please let me > know. I saw that intel plans on releasing vga passthrough patches > soon so I''ll be looking out for those. > > Doug Magee > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Lyon [mailto:andrew.lyon@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:56 PM > To: djmagee@mageenet.net > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA > PassThroughto Windows XP Home 32-bit HVM Virtual Machine with Intel > Desktop BoardDQ45CB > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:25 PM, <djmagee@mageenet.net> wrote: >> As I''ve pointed out on this list before, there are not enough PCIe >> lanes on the DQ45CB to drive both the internal graphics adapter and >> the add-on adapter at the same time. I believe the onboard one may >> be able to operate in some sort of VGA only mode when there is a >> card installed and used as the primary adapter. >> >> I have a similar setup, using the same motherboard, and an ATI >> 4770. I used the VGA passthrough patches from an earlier posting >> (I saw you followed the same set of instructions), with limited >> success. I''ve been using 3.4-testing, and ''xenified'' 2.6.29.6 >> kernel. I made modifications to the dom0 portion of the patches so >> they would apply to my xenified 2.6.29 kernel. These patches >> include code that will copy the VGA bios to the guest bios instead >> of using the emulated vga bios. I''ve had very little success, >> however. I have only tried passing through the ATI adapter. In >> all instances, the guest bios messages appear on my monitor, so >> this much works. In some cases, the guest essentially stops there; >> xm list show''s about 2sec CPU usage and nothing ever happens after >> that point. In other cases, the guest (win xp/vista/7, as well as >> KNOPPIX 5.3.1 DVD) will boot all the way, but in very low res/color >> mode, and cannot properly initialize the video device. Once or >> twice, it actually did recognize the device and had a reasonable >> default color/resolution combination. In all cases where the guest >> actually boots, the system eventually freezes. In some cases, I >> get endless streams of iommu page faults. > > > Can you post the patches you used? specifically the parts for copying > the vga bios. > > did you also use the patch for flr? I''ve ported it to 2.6.29 but not > had time to try vga passthru yet. > >> >> I have 8GB ram installed. In all cases I''ve limited dom0 memory to >> 2GB. In all cases, my guest has been assigned 2GB of memory. >> >> I have a dual core e6600. I''ve tried allowing dom0 to use both >> cores, offlining one core (using xend dom0_vcpu setting) after >> boot, and restricting dom0 to only one core using the >> dom0_max_vcpus xen hypervisor parameter. In all of these cases >> I''ve tried both one and two vcpus for the guest. My success with >> VGA passthrough seems somewhat random and no combination of cpu >> assignment seems to have any effect. >> >> I have not tried with the 2.6.18-xen kernel as I haven''t gotten it >> to boot on my hardware; it can never find my volume group, even if >> I create a initrd with all of the required modules, or build those >> drivers into the kernel. I have not spent more than maybe a half >> an hour on this problem; I suspect it may have something to do with >> the version of mkinitrd I''m using (from Fedora 9 x64). >> >> If anyone else has any insight or similar experience I''d also love >> to hear it. >> >> Doug Magee >> djmagee@mageenet.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel- >> bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang >> Enming) >> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:57 AM >> To: enming.teo@asiasoftsea.net >> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA >> PassThroughto Windows XP Home 32-bit HVM Virtual Machine with Intel >> Desktop BoardDQ45CB >> >> I have uninstalled Xen 3.4.1 and installed Xen 3.5-unstable as >> suggested >> by Weidong. >> >> -- >> Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics Engineering) BEng >> (Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) >> Technical Support Engineer >> Information Technology Department >> Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd >> Tampines Central 1 #04-01 Tampines Plaza >> Singapore 529541 >> Republic of Singapore >> Mobile: +65-9648-9798 >> MSN: teoenming@hotmail.com >> Alma Maters: Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore >> >> >> >> On 08/25/2009 11:47 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I have managed to do PCI-e VGA passthrough with the open source Xen >>> but the work is still in progress because although Windows XP guest >>> can see the REAL PCI-e x16 graphics card instead of an emulated >>> graphics driver, it cannot be initialized yet. >>> >>> Thanks to Intel Engineer Han Weidong, Pasi Kärkkäinen, Boris >>> Derzhavets, Marc, Caz Yokoyama, and others who have helped me and >>> shared their knowledge with me along the way. >>> >>> System Configuration: >>> >>> Intel Desktop Board DQ45CB with BIOS upgraded to 0093 >>> Onboard Intel GMA 4500 Graphics (IGD) >>> nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 Graphics Card >>> >>> Fedora 11 Linux 64-bit Xen paravirt operations Domain 0 Host >>> Operating >>> System >>> Xen 3.5 Unstable/Development Type 1 Hypervisor >>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge''s Xen paravirt-ops domain 0 Kernel 2.6.31-rc6 >>> Primary Video Adapter in BIOS: IGD >>> >>> Please see the screenshots and my blog at the link here: >>> >>> http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/2009/08/nvidia-geforce-8400-gs-pci-express-x16.html >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: vga-pt-patch-2.6.29.6-pci_regs.patch > Type: application/octet-stream > Size: 951 bytes > Desc: vga-pt-patch-2.6.29.6-pci_regs.patch > Url : http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/attachments/20090825/db76aa9b/vga-pt-patch-2.6.29.6-pci_regs.obj > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: vga-pt-patch-kernel-only.patch > Type: application/octet-stream > Size: 42450 bytes > Desc: vga-pt-patch-kernel-only.patch > Url : http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/attachments/20090825/db76aa9b/vga-pt-patch-kernel-only.obj > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: vga-pt-patch.20090607212059 > Type: application/octet-stream > Size: 86445 bytes > Desc: vga-pt-patch.20090607212059 > Url : http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/attachments/20090825/db76aa9b/vga-pt-patch.obj > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > > > End of Xen-devel Digest, Vol 54, Issue 203 > ******************************************_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel