[vfio-users] Code 43 with Rampage III and GTX660 in Windows 10

2016-06-23 Thread Brian Yglesias
I'm trying this on Proxmox VE, which is Debian 8 based. I'm awaiting a UEFI bios from EVGA, but for now I don't have it available. I'm following the "tips and tricks" series, but we differ at part 4, as I'd like this to eventually work with my distro's web frontend. With the goal of finding

Re: [vfio-users] Code 43 with Rampage III and GTX660 in Windows 10

2016-06-24 Thread Brian Yglesias
amson" <alex.l.william...@gmail.com> To: "Brian Yglesias" <br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com> Cc: "vfio-users" <vfio-users@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:02:53 PM Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Code 43 with Rampage III and GTX660 in Windows 10 it's typical fo

Re: [vfio-users] Passing intel_iommu=on in grub causes boot to immediately lock on two different X58 LGA1366 MB.

2016-05-18 Thread Brian Yglesias
mson" <alex.l.william...@gmail.com> Cc: "Brian Yglesias" <br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com>, "vfio-users" <vfio-users@redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:26:16 PM Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Passing intel_iommu=on in grub causes boot to immed

Re: [vfio-users] Passing intel_iommu=on in grub causes boot to immediately lock on two different X58 LGA1366 MB.

2016-05-23 Thread Brian Yglesias
:26 PM, A de Beus <anthony.deb...@gmail.com> wrote:Make sure you have the latest BIOS for that board. Some of the ASUS boards needed an update for IOMMU.On May 18, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson@gmail.com> wrote:[re-adding vfio-users]On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:

Re: [vfio-users] Recommendation for LGA2011 board

2016-05-24 Thread Brian Yglesias
e Rampage IV Extreme is what I use, there are multiple success stories with it.On May 23, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Brian Yglesias <brian@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com> wrote:I have another thread whereby I try and fail to get vfio/VT-d working on two separate lga1366 boards.  (Asus Rampage II Gene and GA-

[vfio-users] Passing intel_iommu=on in grub causes boot to immediately lock on two different X58 LGA1366 MB.

2016-05-17 Thread Brian Yglesias
The first is an Asus Rampage II Gene. While the manual claims VT-d support, Asus boards are known to break PCI pass through in linux. The CPU is a ci7 920. I went out and purchased a ga-ex58-ud5, partly because I'd heard reports of it working in Linux with a few different configuratioThe first

Re: [vfio-users] Stability issues with GTX 970 and GTX 660, Nvidia driver crashes often, seemingly under load

2016-08-15 Thread Brian Yglesias
. - Original Message - From: "Brian Yglesias" <br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com> To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.l.william...@gmail.com>, "Torbjorn Jansson" <torbjorn.jans...@mbox200.swipnet.se> Cc: "vfio-users" <vfio-users@redhat.com>

[vfio-users] Attempting Multi-Seat crashes both VMs with assigned GPUs, unless the VMs are on a single disk with the OS

2016-08-15 Thread Brian Yglesias
Hi all. Pass-though works surprisingly well, unless I start a second VM with or without an assigned GPU. It seems the only way I can multi-seat to work is by having the OS and the VMs on a single disk, and after weeks of futility I'm starting to wonder if I can even replicate that. If I

Re: [vfio-users] Stability Testing/Benchmarking software for Windows VMs

2016-07-16 Thread Brian Yglesias
have an eVGA graphics card, their Precision software includes a multiple-test-type version of Furmark built in. On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Brian Yglesias <br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com <mailto:br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com> > wrote: I'm not much of a gamer, so

[vfio-users] Stability Testing/Benchmarking software for Windows VMs

2016-07-11 Thread Brian Yglesias
I'm not much of a gamer, so I'm looking for software to use for troubleshooting stability issues. E.g. the overclockers all use prime95, or at least they used to.  Is there some analog de facto standard for GPU testing? The software I've found so far doesn't have a continuous testing mode. 

Re: [vfio-users] Attempting Multi-Seat crashes both VMs with assigned GPUs, unless the VMs are on a single disk with the OS

2016-08-16 Thread Brian Yglesias
on the same disk. I ran GPU benchmarks on both at night, and both were still running in the morning. - Original Message - From: "Brian Yglesias" <br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com> To: "vfio-users" <vfio-users@redhat.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2

Re: [vfio-users] GPU driver crashes when running a second VM

2017-11-14 Thread Brian Yglesias
on it a year ago, and recently decided to try one more dist-upgrade, only to find that the problem persists.Even if it can never be made to work on this platform, it would be nice to know why at this point.-Brian On 14/11/17 09:10, Brian Yglesias wrote: > To put it another way, running concurrent VMs w

Re: [vfio-users] X399 Motherboard Recommendation

2017-11-30 Thread Brian Yglesias
they could share.I have thirty days to make decision, before which I could return the board and gpu and hopefully not be forced to eat a restocking fee.Thanks for reading.-BrianOn Nov 24, 2017 1:44 PM, Brian Yglesias <br...@atlanticdigitalsolutions.com> wrote:After not getting things working right w

[vfio-users] X399 Motherboard Recommendation

2017-11-24 Thread Brian Yglesias
After not getting things working right with my X58 boards, I'm a little nervous about a new chipset and another attempt.Does anyone have 1st or 2nd hand experience with the X399 platform?  Asus and Gigabyte boards are the few I'm looking at now, but I'm open to

[vfio-users] GPU driver crashes when running a second VM if either VM has a virtual disk stored on physical media other than the root disk. Tested on three X58 chipset MBs

2017-11-14 Thread Brian Yglesias
To put it another way, running concurrent VMs when at least one VM has an assigned GPU will always result in a GPU driver crash, unless all VMs and all their attached media reside on the root disk. I've been able to replicate this consistently across three motherboards, all with the X58

Re: [vfio-users] GPU driver crashes when running a second VM if either VM has a virtual disk stored on physical media other than the root disk. Tested on three X58 chipset MBs

2017-11-20 Thread Brian Yglesias
Zir, Thanks for the response. I really thought that would work, as the problem does seem to follow the chipset but alas no change. I added intremap=off per your suggestion and found the nox2apic, which I presume will enable xAPIC instead. I searched for information about setting a bit to do

Re: [vfio-users] GPU driver crashes when running a second VM if either VM has a virtual disk stored on physical media other than the root disk. Tested on three X58 chipset MBs

2017-11-18 Thread Brian Yglesias
rd died. My main machine is the ryzen 7. (thanks Geoff and Paolo for fixing the NPT bug!) On 11/14/17 09:10, Brian Yglesias wrote: > To put it another way, running concurrent VMs when at least one VM has an > assigned GPU will always result in a GPU driver crash, unless all VMs and all > thei

[vfio-users] Differences between AMD and Intel passthrough support

2017-11-18 Thread Brian Yglesias
I'm looking into a new platform, and while researching Ryzen's compatibility with vt-d, I came across at least two forum posts wherein the author mentioned that passthru was not as well supported on AMD platforms as on Intel. In both cases the author did not elaborate, nor did they appear to be

Re: [vfio-users] Deciding whether to stick with X399

2017-12-06 Thread Brian Yglesias
The good news is that the motherboard is not broken. (Ironically, it was a virtualization related setting (PCIE_ARI) that caused the system to not POST and made resetting the bios impossible, but only I had my m.2 stick in the port under the southbridge.) The bad news is that the state of

Re: [vfio-users] Deciding whether to stick with X399

2017-12-07 Thread Brian Yglesias
Quick update: My understanding is that a processor firmware update is needed to fix this. It rolled out on Ryzen months ago, but Threadripper is different, and has a dumber name. I found a beta bios for my board, but it comes with the same microcode version as my current BIOS, which is

Re: [vfio-users] Deciding whether to stick with X399

2017-12-06 Thread Brian Yglesias
Sorry for the double post. I keep forgetting to make sure my email client doesn't use html to quote. What follows is my original message: == Thanks for the response. This guy had success with a similar board and ESXi.

[vfio-users] Deciding whether to stick with X399

2017-12-06 Thread Brian Yglesias
TL, DR version is that my very recently purchased X399 board, died before I got.a chance to test iommu, amd im wondering if I should have it replaced or refunded in order to try something from Intel instead.The price of an Asus X399 board along with a 1950x temporarily came down in price

Re: [vfio-users] Deciding whether to stick with X399

2017-12-06 Thread Brian Yglesias
Thanks for the response.This guy had success with a similar board and ESXi.https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/72ula0/tr1950x_gtx_1060_passthrough_with_esxi/I also found an account of it working on the same board as mine (Zenith).  Note that my IOMMU groups were better than his, possibly due to