I did not have success with adding the modules-load=vfio-pci arguments to the 
kernel line. Finally I tried a cron script that waits for 20 seconds after boot 
and then starts the guest. So autostart still isn’t working, but I have a 
workaround.

Thanks again,
Randy

Randall Pittman
Faculty Research Assistant | School of Civil and Construction Engineering | 
Oregon State University
Location: 006 Covell Hall | Mailing: 101 Kearney Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331-2132
Office: 541-737-2102 | Mobile: 541-286-7896

From: Colin Godsey [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 2:19 PM
To: Pittman, Randall; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [vfio-users] PCI passthrough prevents autostart of guest

You might have to try and early load the vfio module to head off any other 
drivers that may try to acquire the device. You should be able to do this with 
the rd.modules-load,modules-load kernel arguments.

http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi.pl?topic=systemd-modules-load.service&ampsect=8

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:55 PM Pittman, Randall 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,

I have a custom PCI data acquisition card for which I only have Windows XP 
drivers, so I’m running WinXP in a QEMU-KVM VM under CentOS 7. I have PCI 
passthrough working fine. (I added the PCI card to the VM with virt-manager) 
However, the VM will not autostart on boot of the host machine. I have the 
following output in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/win_xp.log:
2016-03-29T18:29:26.191010Z qemu-kvm: -device 
vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7: vfio: Error: Failed to 
setup INTx fd: Device or resource busy
2016-03-29T18:29:26.289154Z qemu-kvm: -device 
vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7: Device initialization 
failed.
2016-03-29T18:29:26.289195Z qemu-kvm: -device 
vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7: Device 'vfio-pci' could 
not be initialized


Again, this only happens at boot when the VM should be auto-starting. I can 
start it just fine manually with virsh or virt-manager. Perhaps the issue has 
to do with libvirtd starting too soon? N.b. I’m new to messing with init 
systems in general, systemd in particular.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I haven’t had any responses from the 
libvirt-users list, the CentOS forums, or my local university Linux mailing 
list.

Thanks,
Randy

Extended info:

•         win_xp.xml file: http://pastebin.com/uBSbGDu6

•         Software versions from yum:

o   CentOS - 7.2.1511

o   libvirt - 1.2.17-13.el7_2.3

o   qemu - 2:2.0.0-1.el7.6

o   qemu-kvm - 10:1.5.3-105.el7_2.3

•         Hardware:

o   CPU: Xeon E3-1231 v3, intel_iommu=on set in grub2

o   lspci entry for the custom PCI card:
05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: PLX Technology, Inc. PCI9054 32-bit 33MHz PCI 
<-> IOBus Bridge (rev 0b)


Randall Pittman
Faculty Research Assistant | School of Civil and Construction Engineering | 
Oregon State University
Location: 006 Covell Hall | Mailing: 101 Kearney Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331-2132
Office: 541-737-2102 | Mobile: 541-286-7896

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