Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH(es)] graphics passthrough with VT-d

I believe Weidong mentioned he will release 1:1 mapping patches in a future date. Let's hope he will release it tomorrow. :-)

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On 08/29/2009 12:28 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:

Dear Tim,

I am using onboard Intel GMA 4500 for my Dom 0 and nVidia Geforce 8400 GS for passthrough to Windows XP HVM domU.

I believe the VGA BIOS in the physical memory region 0xC0000 to 0xC7FFF is the vga bios of onboard Intel graphics, and not my Geforce 8400 GS. Hence I would need to extract out the firmware file for my Geforce 8400 GS card.

As for nvidia professional graphics cards, they are too expensive for me for home use.

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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@xxxxxxxxxxx
Alma Maters: Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore

On 08/29/2009 12:10 AM, Tim Moore wrote:

Teo,

It looks like the patches that Wiedong has supplied already copy the VGA bios from the card and re-execute it within the DomU, therefore there should be no need to load it from a file.

I think you will have trouble for 2 reasons:

1) Bios re-execution, these Nvidia cards do not like having the BIOS re-executed (from memcpy or file)

2) the Base Address Registers (BARs) will require 1:1 mappings to the real addresses, which these patches dont cater for

If you want to make it work, you will need a card that works without the 1:1 mapping and is more friendly to virtualisation.

ie:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/sli_multi_os.html

(as Andrew Lyon describes)

Dual Quadro FX 5800, 4800, and 3800 professional graphics boards

From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Sent: 28 August 2009 16:55
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Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Lin, Ben Y'; 'Kay, Allen M'; 'Jean Guyader'; Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bengheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] graphics passthrough with VT-d

Dear Weidong,

A big big thanks for the vga passthrough patches for xen 3.5-unstable!!! These are eagerly anticipated patches. As I did not study computer science and computer architecture, I won't be able to write those patches you guys at Intel wrote.

I applied the following patches xen-gfx-passthrough.patch and qemu-gfx-passthrough.patch to xen 3.5-unstable without issues.

Then I tried to apply the 3rd patch you provided at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/msg01047.html

I saved the following code

<CODE>

diff -r 494be76c1ad9 tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile

--- a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile Thu Aug 27 16:54:33 2009 +0800

+++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile Thu Aug 27 17:22:01 2009 +0800

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ roms.h: ../rombios/BIOS-bochs-latest ../

 roms.h: ../rombios/BIOS-bochs-latest ../vgabios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.bin \

    ../vgabios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.cirrus.bin ../etherboot/eb-roms.h

    sh ./mkhex rombios ../rombios/BIOS-bochs-latest > roms.h

+   sh ./mkhex vgabios_pt ../vgabios/vgabios-pt.bin >> roms.h

    sh ./mkhex vgabios_stdvga ../vgabios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.bin >> roms.h

    sh ./mkhex vgabios_cirrusvga \

        ../vgabios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.cirrus.bin >> roms.h

diff -r 494be76c1ad9 tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c

--- a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c  Thu Aug 27 16:54:33 2009 +0800

+++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c  Thu Aug 27 17:23:00 2009 +0800

@@ -688,9 +688,9 @@ int main(void)

         vgabios_sz = round_option_rom(sizeof(vgabios_stdvga));

         break;

     case VGA_pt:

-        printf("Loading Gfx Video BIOS from 0xC0000 ...\n");

-        vgabios_sz =

-            round_option_rom((*(uint8_t *)(VGABIOS_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS+2)) * 512);

+         printf("Loading Gfx Video BIOS from file ...\n");

+         memcpy((void *)VGABIOS_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, vgabios_pt,

sizeof(vgabios_pt));

+         vgabios_sz = round_option_rom(sizeof(vgabios_pt));

         break;

     default:

         printf("No emulated VGA adaptor ...\n");

</CODE>

as intel-gfx-passthru-patch-3.patch and then I tried to apply the patch to xen 3.5-unstable. I got errors. I think it's because the 3rd patch you provided is incomplete.

Here's my patching process:

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# find . -name vgabios

./tools/firmware/vgabios

./.hg/store/data/tools/firmware/vgabios

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# cp ~enming/vgabios-pt.bin tools/firmware/vgabios/

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# ls tools/firmware/vgabios/

biossums.c  clext.c      Makefile  TODO                 vbe.h            vgabios.h       vgatables.h

BUGS        COPYING      Notes     vbe.c                vbetables-gen.c  vgabios-pt.bin

ChangeLog   dataseghack  README    vbe_display_api.txt  vgabios.c        vgafonts.h

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# pwd

/usr/src/xen-unstable.hg-vgapt

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# wget http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/bincPiiAf0QWg.bin

--2009-08-28 23:18:21--  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/bincPiiAf0QWg.bin

Resolving lists.xensource.com... 70.42.241.110

Connecting to lists.xensource.com|70.42.241.110|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 12565 (12K) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `bincPiiAf0QWg.bin'

100%[======================================================================>] 12,565      30.7K/s   in 0.4s

2009-08-28 23:18:22 (30.7 KB/s) - `bincPiiAf0QWg.bin' saved [12565/12565]

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# mv bincPiiAf0QWg.bin xen-gfx-passthrough.patch

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# vi xen-gfx-passthrough.patch

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# patch < xen-gfx-passthrough.patch

can't find file to patch at input line 4

Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?

The text leading up to this was:

--------------------------

|diff -r 5d7e7a250267 tools/firmware/hvmloader/config.h

|--- a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/config.h      Wed Aug 26 18:28:44 2009 +0800

|+++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/config.h      Thu Aug 27 16:54:24 2009 +0800

--------------------------

File to patch: ^C

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# ex xen-gfx-passthrough.patch

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# patch -p1 < xen-gfx-passthrough.patch

patching file tools/firmware/hvmloader/config.h

patching file tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c

patching file tools/libxc/ia64/xc_ia64_hvm_build.c

patching file tools/libxc/xc_hvm_build.c

patching file tools/libxc/xc_linux.c

patching file tools/libxc/xenctrl.h

patching file tools/libxc/xenguest.h

patching file tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c

patching file tools/python/xen/xend/XendConfig.py

Hunk #1 succeeded at 174 (offset -1 lines).

patching file tools/python/xen/xend/image.py

Hunk #1 succeeded at 780 (offset -6 lines).

Hunk #3 succeeded at 895 (offset -6 lines).

patching file tools/python/xen/xm/create.py

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# wget http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/binglLqkeq4Rj.bin

--2009-08-28 23:21:35--  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/binglLqkeq4Rj.bin

Resolving lists.xensource.com... 70.42.241.110

Connecting to lists.xensource.com|70.42.241.110|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 9841 (9.6K) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `binglLqkeq4Rj.bin'

100%[======================================================================>] 9,841       24.3K/s   in 0.4s

2009-08-28 23:21:36 (24.3 KB/s) - `binglLqkeq4Rj.bin' saved [9841/9841]

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# mv binglLqkeq4Rj.bin qemu-gfx-passthrough.patch

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# vi qemu-gfx-passthrough.patch

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# find . -name hw

./tools/ioemu-remote/hw

./.hg/store/data/tools/ioemu/hw

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# mv qemu-gfx-passthrough.patch tools/ioemu-remote/

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# cd tools/ioemu-remote/

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host ioemu-remote]# patch -p1 < qemu-

qemu-aio.h                  qemu-img.c                  qemu-sockets.c

qemu-binfmt-conf.sh         qemu-img.texi               qemu-tech.texi

qemu-char.c                 qemu-lock.h                 qemu-timer.h

qemu-char.h                 qemu-log.h                  qemu-tool.c

qemu-common.h               qemu-malloc.c               qemu-xen.h

qemu-doc.texi               qemu-nbd.c

qemu-gfx-passthrough.patch  qemu-nbd.texi

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host ioemu-remote]# patch -p1 < qemu-gfx-passthrough.patch

patching file hw/pass-through.c

patching file hw/pass-through.h

patching file hw/pc.c

patching file vl.c

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host ioemu-remote]# cd ..

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host tools]# cd ..

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# vi intel-gfx-passthru-patch-3.patch

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# patch -p1 < intel-gfx-passthru-patch-3.patch

patching file tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile

Hunk #1 FAILED at 50.

1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile.rej

patching file tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c

patch: **** malformed patch at line 24: sizeof(vgabios_pt));

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host xen-unstable.hg-vgapt]# vi intel-gfx-passthru-patch-3.patch

For everybody's convenience, I have attached intel-gfx-passthru-patch-3.patch and the firmware for my nVidia GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 graphics card in this email.

Please help me complete intel-gfx-passthru-patch-3.patch as I really need it.

Thank you very much!!!

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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@xxxxxxxxxxx

Alma Maters: Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore

This patch supports basic gfx passthrough on QEMU:

  - disable emulated VGA adpater if there is passthroughed gfx

  - register/unregister legacy VGA I/O ports and MMIOs for passthroughed gfx

Signed-off-by: Ben Lin <ben.y.lin@xxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@xxxxxxxxx>

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