Hello, Not sure if I didn't get it or your replying from a different email, but I don't know which gist you're talking about. My current working (with audio now) XML is at http://termbin.com/ezom
I also added my info to the Google Sheet that Will posted. On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:05 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Post a block comment of your domxml or script on my gist I sent you last > night if you can, congrats! > > > > Sent from my Windows 10 phone > > > > *From: *Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Saturday, November 19, 2016 10:00 AM > *To: *Will Marler <[email protected]> > *Cc: *vfio-users <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [vfio-users] Another Nvidia code 43 error > > > > Hold on everyone..... I got it to work (and by I, I truly mean it was a > group effort). Here's what I did. > > > > So out of the 10's of different combinations I tried, the one thing I > hadn't tried was flashing UEFI onto my GTX760, so I did that, rebooted the > host, fired up the VM and for the first time since removing the spice > display adapter I saw a resolution higher than 640x480. Opening up Device > Manager shows that the GTX 760 is working properly. ( I have another PCI > device that is unknown, but this is at least some progress. I think the > other PCI device is the sound part of my GTX 760, since the VM says there > are no sound devices). > > > > I tried this because of the other thread I saw this morning (Support for > Passthrough) and reading through that and the links indicated that OVMF > wouldn't work without UEFI on the card. I tried just having the rom loaded > at VM boot but that didn't work. > > > > I followed this guide for both finding the UEFI rom to flash as well as > the tools to flash it (there are linux tools for flashing it from nvidia). > http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2288384/upgrade-gpu-bios.html > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:30 PM Will Marler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, I'm at a loss : (. Maybe there's a BIOS setting you need to play > with ... maybe the motherboard just can't handle it. I only see 2 entries > for an "ASUS X79 Deluxe" (there are lots of Asus P9X19 Deluxe's though) in > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LnGpTrXalwGVNy0PWJDURhyxa3sgqkGXmvNCIvIMenk/edit?pli=1#gid=0 > (both from the same guy with the exact same specs and one lists working > "no" and the other with working "yes", so I'm hesitant to find it a useful > entry), which doesn't bode well. > > > > I've never tried a headless host with the guest using passed-throughV VGA > card ... if you want to try that route I'd suggest booting the VM with no > video card connected and using VNC to uninstall the nVidia drivers (or make > a new guest) and seeing if Windows will boot & recognize the card and if *that > *works then you can go to the next step of nVidia drivers. > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, tried having the 760 in the first slot and the 430 in the second slot. > Same issue, when I boot the Win 10 VM the whole host seems to hang (can't > access it locally or remotely, doesn't respond to ping). Does this indicate > that Linux isn't giving up the card properly or something else? > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Will, > > > > So booting with just the one card is more work than just pulling the 430. > I can boot linux, but it's using the 760 even though it's loading the > pci-stub driver. As soon as I boot the win10 VM (after changing the VM to > include the 01 PCI device instead of the 02 PCI device) The whole box seems > to hang. I'll try shutting it down and having the 430 be the second card in > the box to see if that makes any difference. > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:46 PM Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Will, > > > > I haven't tried swapping the two cards yet, nor pulling just the one. I'll > try that tomorrow and see what happens. > > > > The motherboard I have is an ASUS X79-DELUXE. > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:17 AM Will Marler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry about that, I just took the time to read through the full thread and > I found your updated XML. I see you've already tried with all of the hyperv > lines removed. > > > > Early in the thread you mentioned that "if I pull the GT 430 from the box > that I can see the boot on the GTX 760." If you pull the GT 430, do you > clear up the code 43 error? This could be worth trying, though I've never > tried running a guest on a headless machine personally (I've read others > have done it). > > > > Have you tried swapping the slots that the 760 & 430 occupy? > > > > Maybe there's something in the BIOS... What kind of motherboard do you > have? > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Will, > > > > No, I've not been able to get the NVidia drivers working at all, in any of > my tests. > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:55 AM Will Marler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry if you've said this already, but are you able to get the nVidia > drivers to work if you remove all hyper-v enablements? > > > > From > http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-part-4-our-first.html > : > > "Within the <features> section, remove everything between the <hyperv> > tags, including the tags themselves. In their place add the following tags: > > > > <kvm> > > <hidden state='on'/> > > </kvm> > > > > Additionally, within the <clock> tag, find the timer named hypervclock, > remove the line containing this tag completely." > > > > You have the <kvm><hidden state='on'/></kvm> tags and you removed the > hypervclock within the <clock> tags, but you have > <features><hyperv><vendor_id state='on' value='whatever'/></hyperv> > > > > That might be confusing the nVidia drivers. > > > > If you get it working as per the blog post, then try moving forward to the > next increment, enabling hyperv. For reference, here are the relevant > sections of my XML, with hyper-v enabled (I have a GeForce 750ti) > > > > <features> > > <acpi/> > > <apic/> > > <hyperv> > > <relaxed state='on'/> > > <vapic state='on'/> > > <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> > > <vendor_id state='on' value='123456789ab'/> > > </hyperv> > > <kvm> > > <hidden state='on'/> > > </kvm> > > <vmport state='off'/> > > </features> > > > > <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> > > <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/> > > </cpu> > > > > <clock offset='localtime'> > > <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> > > <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> > > <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> > > <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> > > </clock> > > > > One other thing to note: the "value" string of the vendor_id tag might be > required to be a certain number of characters. I recall reading that > somewhere, but I can't quote it, so I could be wrong. It's an easy thing to > test though (*after* you have the nVidia driver working without hyperv > enabled first!) > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Brett, > > > > I just ran GPU-Z and the UEFI box is not checked. So no UEFI it seems > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:33 AM Brett Peckinpaugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Has anyone verified if the video card has uefi firmware? > > On November 17, 2016 7:33:32 AM PST, Thomas Mashos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sorry, guess I didn't reply all last time. > > > > Just uninstalled the Nvidia driver and let windows search for and install > the driver. Let it reboot a few times, no deal. Still code 43 :( > > > > I'm still using the default Ubuntu kernel > > Linux smitty 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 26 19:39:52 UTC 2016 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > Here's my current XML, which I tried changing the CPU topology to match > yours, still getting error code 43. > > http://termbin.com/3n44 > > > > Not sure what else to try here, maybe I should try a Win 7 install? I > think I still have one of those DVD's laying around. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:33 PM Eddie Yen <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK....now things change to difficult. > > > > Can you post your XML again after you edit? > > Also, did you change kernel or still using Ubuntu official version? > > I don't want to suspect but I think it had few connection inside. > > > > And here is my XML code when running K420 /w Windows 7, as a reference. > > Also don't forget to reply the mail back to VFIO milling list, maybe other > people can help :) > > 2016-11-17 13:34 GMT+08:00 Thomas Mashos <[email protected]>: > > Just uninstalled the Nvidia driver and let windows search for and install > the driver. Let it reboot a few times, no deal. Still code 43 :( > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:33 PM Eddie Yen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Roger that, > > > > What about try the driver version from Windows 10, not NVIDIA official > download? > > I remember Windows 10 has built GeForce 700 Series driver inside. > > 2016-11-17 11:04 GMT+08:00 Thomas Mashos <[email protected]>: > > I've now tried both those options (I tried a few different machine types > too) with no luck. > > > > I forgot to mention that I also tried the setting the interrupts to MSI > via the registry for the GTX 760, but that didn't seem to switch it to MSI > on reboot. > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:08 PM Eddie Yen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > Basically KVM <hidden state=on/> equals kvm=off, so you can keep it. > > > > And there is no need to reinstall NVIDIA driver whenever you change XML > code. > > > > If you already tried remove Hyper-V features and still got Code 43, > there're few ways you can try. > > > > 1. Set CPU as "host-passthrough" mode > > 2. You can type virsh capabilities to see how many machine type you can > use, and try different i440fx version. > > Some GPU may got a problem if using higher version of i440fx > > > > I'm running K420 on server, and guest OS is Windows 7. But I'm not using > third-party ppa to install newer QEMU and libvirt, all I do is compile and > install by myself. Using OVMF and i440fx-2.6 and it works perfectly without > Hyper-V (Because Windows 7 can't enable Hyper-V in OVMF mode.) > > > > I'm not sure these tip works on you or not, just give it a try :) > > > > 2016-11-17 9:40 GMT+08:00 Thomas Mashos <[email protected]>: > > >
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