Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-12-13 Thread Erik Hardesty
I'm not sure if this will help the KVM camp at all but I have a very similar situation. I have a Radeon 7970 and a Xonar DX which uses the same chipset and pci-pcie bridge. The best I could get passthrough to work in KVM was exactly the same as the original poster's experience. I eventually

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-10-02 Thread Martin Wolf
Hello, would a Memory Dump from inside the VM help solving the BSOD, or is that pointless? Thank you for your patience and help ;) Am 28.09.2012 18:29, schrieb Jan Kiszka: On 2012-09-28 17:50, Alex Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 10:12 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-09-27 21:18,

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-28 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-09-27 21:18, Alex Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:43 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: thank you for the information. i will try what you mentioned... do you have some additional information about rebooting a VM with a passed through videocard? (amd / ati 7870) I don't. Is

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-28 Thread Martin Wolf
well my first tests with the vga rom were useless because of apparmor rules i guess now i placed the vga.rom in /usr/share/qemu ... well the error is gone now but no changes ;) so i added the bar parameter but it also made no difference :( are you interested in the windows memory dump from the

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-28 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 10:12 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-09-27 21:18, Alex Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:43 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: thank you for the information. i will try what you mentioned... do you have some additional information about rebooting a VM with a

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-28 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-09-28 17:50, Alex Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 10:12 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-09-27 21:18, Alex Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:43 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: thank you for the information. i will try what you mentioned... do you have some additional

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Wolf
i waited 2 months to get a more stable ubuntu 12.10 now that i dont get crashes every 5 minutes im going to test again. as you remember my two only problems are first the reboot issue of the gues os and second the xonar 2 d2x audio card. but first i would like to work on the reboot issue since

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 13:19 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: i waited 2 months to get a more stable ubuntu 12.10 now that i dont get crashes every 5 minutes im going to test again. as you remember my two only problems are first the reboot issue of the gues os and second the xonar 2 d2x audio card.

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Wolf
thank you for the information. i will try what you mentioned... do you have some additional information about rebooting a VM with a passed through videocard? (amd / ati 7870) thanks in advance Am 27.09.2012 19:56, schrieb Alex Williamson: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 13:19 +0200, Martin Wolf

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:43 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: thank you for the information. i will try what you mentioned... do you have some additional information about rebooting a VM with a passed through videocard? (amd / ati 7870) I don't. Is the bsod on reboot only or does it also happen

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Wolf
when will that support be implemented? how do i enable debug support for the pci-assign driver? Am 27.09.2012 21:18, schrieb Alex Williamson: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:43 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: thank you for the information. i will try what you mentioned... do you have some additional

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 21:37 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: when will that support be implemented? how do i enable debug support for the pci-assign driver? I believe the target is qemu 1.3 for q35. Debug is enabled by uncommenting the DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT_DEBUG define in hw/kvm/pci-assign.c (or

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Wolf
about your question if the bsod also happens on shutdown, i have to deny it. it just happens after an msi message in kernel log on rebooting the vm. (but the msi message is also there on initial boot where the system works perfectly) in my oppinion at the moment when the video driver is

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-19 Thread Martin Wolf
i tried now the alpha of ubuntu 12.10 that includes qemu-kvm 1.1 and a 3.5 kernel version. the msr problem is gone now, i was able to select sandybridge as cpu topology, this removed the MSR error messages. thats the positive part... unfortunately i had no success with the other topics

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-19 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-07-19 16:54, Martin Wolf wrote: i tried now the alpha of ubuntu 12.10 that includes qemu-kvm 1.1 and a 3.5 kernel version. the msr problem is gone now, i was able to select sandybridge as cpu topology, this removed the MSR error messages. thats the positive part... unfortunately

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-19 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 16:54 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: i tried now the alpha of ubuntu 12.10 that includes qemu-kvm 1.1 and a 3.5 kernel version. the msr problem is gone now, i was able to select sandybridge as cpu topology, this removed the MSR error messages. thats the positive part...

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-18 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-07-18 07:45, Martin Wolf wrote: Hello, i was able to passthrough an AMD 7870 videocard to my win7 guest machine. Would you add it to http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VGA_device_assignment? my host is ubuntu 12.04 with stock kernel. my system contains: dq67sw q67 mainboard i5-2400s

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Wolf
On 18.07.2012 11:26, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-07-18 07:45, Martin Wolf wrote: Hello, i was able to passthrough an AMD 7870 videocard to my win7 guest machine. Would you add it to http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VGA_device_assignment? sure, i will prepare something my host is ubuntu 12.04

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Wolf
soundcard logs added On 18.07.2012 14:08, Martin Wolf wrote: On 18.07.2012 11:26, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-07-18 07:45, Martin Wolf wrote: Hello, i was able to passthrough an AMD 7870 videocard to my win7 guest machine. Would you add it to

Re: vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 14:37 +0200, Martin Wolf wrote: soundcard logs added On 18.07.2012 14:08, Martin Wolf wrote: On 18.07.2012 11:26, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-07-18 07:45, Martin Wolf wrote: Hello, i was able to passthrough an AMD 7870 videocard to my win7 guest machine.

vga passthrough // questions about pci passthrough

2012-07-17 Thread Martin Wolf
Hello, i was able to passthrough an AMD 7870 videocard to my win7 guest machine. my host is ubuntu 12.04 with stock kernel. my system contains: dq67sw q67 mainboard i5-2400s cpu sapphire 7870 amd videocard xonar d2x (problems to passthrough) for full functionality i just needed two options -