[Xen-devel] Re: Xen-devel Digest, Vol 54, Issue 203

[Mikhail Savchenko <Savchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 26.08.2009, at 0:01, xen-devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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>   1. RE: nVidia Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA     PassThroughto
>      Windows XP Home 32-bit HVM Virtual Machine with    Intel Desktop
>      BoardDQ45CB (djmagee@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:57:24 -0400
> From: <djmagee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 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@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:56 PM
> To: djmagee@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel- 
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang  
> > Enming)
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:57 AM
> > To: enming.teo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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
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> > MSN: teoenming@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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
> >
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