[vfio-users] Z170X IOMMU Groups

2016-09-16 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi, I was wondering if we could split group 7 any more. CPU is the 6700k. I'd like to be able to pass through the USB controller without the ACS patch. Thanks, Sarnex IOMMU group 0 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Skylake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:191f] (rev 07) IOMMU

Re: [vfio-users] Z170X IOMMU Groups

2016-09-17 Thread Nick Sarnie
n < >> alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Nick Sarnie >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I was wondering if we could split group 7 any more. CPU is the 6700k. >>

Re: [vfio-users] Z170X IOMMU Groups

2016-09-17 Thread Nick Sarnie
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Nick Sarnie wrote: > Hi Alex, > > The output is here: http://pastebin.com/raw/qjnpuaVr > Also, is there any way we could move the USB controller into its own > group, or remove the Ethernet and SATA controller into a seperate group? > Ideally, I

Re: [vfio-users] Z170X IOMMU Groups

2016-09-18 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi again, Thanks a lot for investigating. I've reported the issue to the manufacturer. Thanks, sarnex On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Nick Sarnie > wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >

Re: [vfio-users] Lost link when pass through rtl8168 to guest

2016-09-20 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi Wei, My system is a desktop, so it must just be a general Gigabyte BIOS bug. I submitted a help ticket about this issue and just gave a brief explanation and then sent Alex's explanation. Hopefully it will be escalated correctly. Thanks, Nick On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Wei Xu wrote: >

Re: [vfio-users] Z170X IOMMU Groups

2016-09-22 Thread Nick Sarnie
Groups: http://pastebin.com/raw/0dcHk8Xk lspci: http://pastebin.com/raw/1zAZuPBM Alex, please let me know if they missed anything else, so I can report it to them. Thanks, Nick On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Nick Sarnie wrote: > Hi again, > > Thanks a lot for investigating. I'v

Re: [vfio-users] Z170X IOMMU Groups

2016-09-22 Thread Nick Sarnie
6 8:59:57 PM PDT, Wei Xu wrote: > >> >> >> On 2016年09月23日 02:47, Nick Sarnie wrote: >> >>> Hi again, >>> >>> Very much to my surprise, Gigabyte replied and sent me a fixed BIOS. The >>> new IOMMU groups (with ACS override patch kernel c

Re: [vfio-users] No HDMI audio from AMD RX480 when passed through to Windows 8.1 VM.

2017-01-21 Thread Nick Sarnie
Did you set x-vga=on for the BIOS VM? On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 08:21:05PM AEDT, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > Greetings. > > I'm writing with a rather annoying problem. I am unable to get audio > output > > through HDMI on an AMD RX480 card that

Re: [vfio-users] VGA Passthrough fails without NoSnoop patch

2017-01-29 Thread Nick Sarnie
Have you tried a BIOS install and setting x-vga=on? With my 480, there is no UEFI image or it got corrupted somehow, so I need to pass a UEFI vbios I downloaded to see the screen if I use UEFI. With BIOS, x-vga=on works. On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Javier Celaya wrote: > Hello list > > I'

Re: [vfio-users] AMD RX480 Not working with windows

2017-02-04 Thread Nick Sarnie
I only needed core2duo when installing the anniversary update. I heard it tries to flash CPU microcode and QEMU blocks this so the update fails, but it doesn't try to install it for core2duo. On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Nick Sarnie wrote: > I only needed core2duo when instal

Re: [vfio-users] AMD RX480 Not working with windows

2017-02-04 Thread Nick Sarnie
I couldn't get drivers installed on Q35 with my 480, and I think Alex recommends i1440fx but he'd have to jump in to confirm. On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Janusz wrote: > On 02/04/2017 12:17 PM, Javier Celaya wrote: > > This is my command line: > qemu-system-x86_64 > -nodefaults -no-u

Re: [vfio-users] Freesync support

2017-02-17 Thread Nick Sarnie
I also need to hide the hypervisor for the "Display" tab to show up. I assume it's a bug and not intentional. Hopefully they fix it. On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Øyvind Aasen wrote: > It didn't seem like that to me. I had to do a reinstall off the VM a couple > days ago. Because I had some

Re: [vfio-users] audio with IGD

2017-02-22 Thread Nick Sarnie
Can you send lspci? On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:14 PM, José A. Gómez wrote: > Hello, > > How do you get audio when you are using the IGD? I have passed the audio > controller (device 00:03.0) and in Windows 10 is detected as Intel Display > Audio, but under Sound preferences, in playback section t

[vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups

2017-03-08 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi all, My Ryzen stuff finally arrived, so I can help get GPU Passthrough working. My CPU is the 1800X and my motherboard is the Asus Prime X370-Pro. I'm on kernel 4.10.1. The IOMMU groups are indeed bad: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/LGsNqdfIO3xWNNv9Mslr/ As you can see, the graphics card

Re: [vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups

2017-03-08 Thread Nick Sarnie
x27;ll report if it works tomorrow. On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:14 AM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/09/2017 12:30 AM, Nick Sarnie wrote: > > Hi all, > My Ryzen stuff finally arrived, so I can help get GPU Passthrough working. > My CPU is the 1800X and my motherboard is the Asus Prime X37

Re: [vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups

2017-03-09 Thread Nick Sarnie
7KYrF/ Let me know if you see anything, Thanks On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Nick Sarnie > wrote: > >> I expect Alex to find it's a BIOS bug. Also, the ACS patch does allow the >> groups to be made separating the

Re: [vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups

2017-03-10 Thread Nick Sarnie
lt; alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Nick Sarnie > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> You previously helped me with an issue on Z170 with the bios preventing >> the quirk from kicking in on the root ports, and Gigabyte fixed the bios >> for

Re: [vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups

2017-03-10 Thread Nick Sarnie
t 1:37 PM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Nick Sarnie > wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> I don't see either of the options. I couldn't find Common Options at all, >> and here's a screenshot of

Re: [vfio-users] kvm_get_msr_common: XXX callbacks suppressed

2017-03-15 Thread Nick Sarnie
No, it should be fine. It means the guest tried to access a CPU model specific register, and KVM ignored it. This is usually a suggestion to fix issues in the VM. I'm not sure how to actually disable the messages though. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:25 PM, sL1pKn07 SpinFlo wrote: > Hi > > since, si

Re: [vfio-users] Speed tips requested

2017-03-26 Thread Nick Sarnie
Sorry, is that a SCSI controller set to virtio type, or the virtio option selected for the disk instead of SCSI? I've seen both recommended. Thanks, Sarnex On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Zachary Boley wrote: > From what I've read Red Hat recommends virtio with raw on no cache with io > threa

Re: [vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups

2017-03-27 Thread Nick Sarnie
.04 beta. Same behavior. > > Thanks > Stano > > -- > >- *From*: Nick Sarnie >- *To*: Alex Williamson >- *Cc*: vfio-users >- *Subject*: Re: [vfio-users] Ryzen/X370 Chipset and IOMMU Groups >- *Date*: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:53:26 -0500 > > > Yeah, th

[vfio-users] AMD Ryzen Nested Page Table Performance Oddities

2017-04-05 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi all, I'm seeing some strange issues regarding the Nested Page Table option of the kvm-amd module on my Ryzen system. First off, having the parameter enabled, as it is by default, clearly and consistently increases CPU performance inside the VM. I've tested this with a kernel compile, and it is

Re: [vfio-users] AMD Ryzen Nested Page Table Performance Oddities

2017-04-05 Thread Nick Sarnie
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Nick Sarnie wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing some strange issues regarding the Nested Page Table option > of the kvm-amd module on my Ryzen system. > > First off, having the parameter enabled, as it is by default, clearly > and

Re: [vfio-users] AMD Ryzen Nested Page Table Performance Oddities

2017-04-07 Thread Nick Sarnie
I can't reproduce that issue, I tested a Fedora VM with both npt 0 and 1, of course with the same GPU performance results as windows. I've mailed some AMD guys and KVM guys, and hopefully someone can at least figure out what is going on. Also, Alex has reproduced this himself on both Nvidia and AMD

Re: [vfio-users] Frequent crashing with Overwatch

2017-04-14 Thread Nick Sarnie
Have you guys tried disabling MSRs? On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Abdulla Bubshait wrote: > I would also like to chime in that this behaviour started popping up for me > too. I am guessing it was introduced in a recent Overwatch update. I used to > play the game fine on my setup until recently

Re: [vfio-users] AMD Ryzen Nested Page Table Performance Oddities

2017-04-18 Thread Nick Sarnie
t to use one or the other. > > Are you able to share your Kernel command line and XML for the Linux host > please? > > > On 7 Apr 2017 22:54, "Nick Sarnie" wrote: > > I can't reproduce that issue, I tested a Fedora VM with both npt 0 and > 1, of course with the s

Re: [vfio-users] AMD Ryzen Nested Page Table Performance Oddities

2017-04-20 Thread Nick Sarnie
fecting > GPU FPS performance. > > > On 18 Apr 2017 16:14, "Nick Sarnie" wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Graham Neville >> wrote: >> > Has there been any feedback on this at all? >> > >> > I'm still struggling to get a W

Re: [vfio-users] Minimal host with desktop guest and gaming guest. Is this possible?

2017-07-15 Thread Nick Sarnie
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 8:59 PM, almer wrote: > Hi, > > my motivation: wattage concerns and not utilizing my hardware to the > fullest. My setup is pretty much historically grown to 3 computers now. one > for gaming (win10), one for storage/backup (debian stable) and one for > desktop (latest xubu

[vfio-users] NPT Performance Bug Identified and Fixed

2017-10-26 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi all, I just wanted to send an update if you haven't heard. The cause of the bad GPU performance with NPT enabled on AMD systems has been identified and fixed. The patch is located here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10027525/ I assume it will make it upstream soon. For now, you have to p

Re: [vfio-users] "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8"

2018-02-23 Thread Nick Sarnie
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Will Marler wrote: > I'm running Arch and updating recently has caused my VM to stop booting. > > Watching journalctl I see this when I try to start the VM: > > "Feb 23 15:04:07 haze kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at 00a

[vfio-users] Not binding GPU to vfio-pci

2016-02-20 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi guys, When i want to do gpu-passthrough, i just unbind my GPU from radeon, and then pass it to qemu. I don't bind it to vfio-pci or any driver and it works fine. Is there any downside or performance loss to doing it this way? Thanks, sarnex ___ vfio-u

Re: [vfio-users] Not binding GPU to vfio-pci

2016-02-21 Thread Nick Sarnie
dded the gpu to the VM with PCI Host Device under Add Hardware. Is this what you're talking about? Thanks, sarnex On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:47:29 -0500 > Nick Sarnie wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > When i want to do gpu-passt

Re: [vfio-users] Not binding GPU to vfio-pci

2016-02-21 Thread Nick Sarnie
e/Fast booting. Can I use a GPU like this with OVMF and more importantly, is there any performance difference using OVMF over SeaBios? Thanks alot, sarnex On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Alex Williamson < alex.william...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Nick Sarnie

Re: [vfio-users] Not binding GPU to vfio-pci

2016-02-21 Thread Nick Sarnie
Awesome, thanks for the link. On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, wrote: > For your quick question is there answer. I ask litle bit same in this > thread. > https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-February/msg00033.html > > > 2016-02-21 17:45 GMT+01:00 Nick Sar

Re: [vfio-users] when is ROM extraction needed and how to do it correctly?

2016-02-26 Thread Nick Sarnie
I believe it's only needed to check if your video card bios supports UEFI with rom-parser. You can optionally pass it to qemu, but I haven't needed to. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > In which cases are these ROMs actually needed? For example, is the ROM > needed if the

Re: [vfio-users] Win10 guest stops responding. How to debug?

2016-02-26 Thread Nick Sarnie
Could it also be the host running out of RAM and thrashing? I've had that issue produce these results. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > Here is my setup: > CPU: i5-4460 > GPU: R9 290 > MB: Asrock H97M-ITX > Host OS: Archlinux running linux-ck 4.3.6 (but same problem with linu

[vfio-users] Disk Performance

2016-04-02 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi guys, It seems the biggest limiting factor of my GPU Passthrough setup is the disk. Does anyone have any tips to optimize it? Also, which is faster, having the disk with if=virtio, or having the disk with if=none and a virtio SCSI controller. The raw image is 250GB on a 500GB ext4 hard drive, w

Re: [vfio-users] Disk Performance

2016-04-02 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi again, Fluxion: Thanks, I've added that. Unfortunately, I'm stuck using net user because I'm only on wireless so I can't bridge easily, and I haven't been able to get any of the wireless bridging taps working. Also, I'm at university so my IP changes a lot, which seems like I'd have to reconfig

Re: [vfio-users] Disk Performance

2016-04-02 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi, Thanks for your detailed post. I believe I have already changed my script to make sense, thanks to the previous reply. I've attached it again below. For networking, I am using a wireless card where I cannot create a bridge, and my IP changes very often. Is there a simple way to manually create

Re: [vfio-users] Disk Performance

2016-04-03 Thread Nick Sarnie
ave to > explicitly set parameters. You can type 'info qtree' in the qemu console > and check the configs parameters if you are interested in the fine details, > but I wouldn't explicitly set the parameters unless you know you need > something. > > > On 03/04/1

[vfio-users] Non-root Passthrough Audio with libvirt

2016-04-17 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi guys, I'm using libvirt and virt-manager for my GPU passthrough setup, with no-root. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get pulseaudio working. Even though it is running as user, libvirt is trying to look in /root for pulse config files. The VM shows I have an audio device connected,

Re: [vfio-users] Non-root Passthrough Audio with libvirt

2016-04-18 Thread Nick Sarnie
I managed to solve this. You run pulse as the user, with anonymous auth and a unix socket at /tmp/pulse. Then, set PULSE_SERVER=unix:/tmp/pulse in the envvars for the domain xml. Works from there. On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Nick Sarnie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm using li

Re: [vfio-users] gpu passthrough problems after upgrade qemu 2.5 -> 2.6

2016-06-04 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi Jiri, I just wanted to add that a similar issue is effecting me. With qemu 2.6, I get a black screen after the seabios screen. Downgrading to 2.5.1 fixes it for me. I tried 2.6 with the pc-i440fx-2.5 machine type, but that didn't work either. If anyone has any ideas, let us know. Thanks On F

[vfio-users] Unbinding the RX 480 without blacklist

2016-07-06 Thread Nick Sarnie
Hi guys, I recently purchased the RX 480, but I can't unbind it in the same way as I could with radeon. If i boot with amdgpu not blacklisted nor the card bound to pci-stub/vfio-pci automatically, and I try to unbind, I get a hard kernel lockup. With radeon, I could just switch the default BusID