Re: [Qemu-devel] VFIO VGA test branches

[Maik Broemme <mbroemme@parallels.com>]

Hi Alex,

Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 23:26 +0400, Maik Broemme wrote:
> > Hi Knut,
> > 
> > Knut Omang <knuto@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:23 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 22:55 +0200, Knut Omang wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Perfect timing from my perspective, thanks Alex!
> > > > > 
> > > > > I spent the better part of the weekend testing your branches on a new system 
> > > > > I just put together for this purpose, results below..
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 16:56 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > > ...
> > > > > > git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git vfio-vga-reset
> > > > > > git://github.com/awilliam/qemu-vfio.git vfio-vga-reset
> > > > > 
> > > > > System setup: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > - Fedora 18 on
> > > > > - Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard
> > > > > - Intel Core i7 3770 (Ivy bridge w/integrated graphics)
> > > > > - 2 discrete graphics cards:
> > > > > 
> > > > > lspci | egrep 'VGA|Audio'
> > > > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
> > > > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
> > > > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6450]
> > > > > 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series]
> > > > > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7700 Series]
> > > > > 02:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]
> > > > > 
> > > > > Short summary:
> > > > > 
> > > > > - Once I got past a few time consuming obstacles explained below
> > > > >    - the graphics part of the graphics/hdmi audio passthrough seems to work perfect
> > > > >      on both discrete graphics cards 
> > > > >      (though so far only one at at time and with some minor issues, see below)
> > > > >    - no success with the hdmi audio yet (ideas for further investigation appreciated!)
> > > > 
> > > > I've had hdmi audio working with an HD7850, but only in Windows (7) and
> > > > it was using legacy interrupts for some reason instead of MSI.  I wonder
> > > > if Liux guests might work with snd_hda_intel.enable_msi=0.  I'm not sure
> > > > what's wrong with MSI, but it seems to be new with the PCI bus reset
> > > > support.
> > > 
> > > In my first tries, Windows were just using a generic
> > > VGA driver, which still seems to work perfect with reboots and everything 
> > > and in full screen resolution (1920x1200).
> > > However after installing the Catalyst AMD driver stack, upon boot
> > > Windows 7 now consequently get a BSOD from the graphics driver
> > > with the message:
> > > 
> > > "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed"
> > > - a picture of the BSOD screen attached.
> > > 
> > > I attach the corresponding vfio log where I added some timing code to
> > > make it easier to see when the BSOD happens (with 2 seconds of silence
> > > in the log before the VM reboots, I believe this is at 09:28:32-34 in
> > > the log.
> > > 
> > > Similar behaviour both just after reboot/power cycle of the host and
> > > subsequent VM boot attempts.
> > > 
> > > This is still with the HD7700 as passed through device, but after a
> > > motherboard firmware upgrade (to F14) which did not seem to affect the
> > > observed behaviour on Windows prior to Catalyst install or with Linux
> > > guest, neither did it fix the bug in selecting primary devices as I 
> > > was hoping for.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if you have ideas for further debugging this,
> > > 
> > 
> > I had a similar problem a couple of days ago and posted it in this list.
> > I got similar BSOD and tested already the following configurations:
> > 
> > 1) machine: q35 / kvm: yes / vga: none   / x-vga: on  = qemu freeze
> > 2) machine: q35 / kvm: no  / vga: none   / x-vga: on  = qemu freeze
> >    (with errors below)
> > 3) machine: q35 / kvm: yes / vga: none   / x-vga: off = qemu runs with
> >    100% CPU due to no VGA init (no picture)
> > 4) machine: q35 / kvm: yes / vga: cirrus / x-vga: off = qemu runs with
> >    BOSD on loading atikmpag.sys
> > 5) machine: pc  / kvm: yes / vga: cirrus / x-vga: off = qemu runs fine
> > 
> > However I've re-run the BSOD case already with the following branches
> > from Alex:
> > 
> > git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git vfio-vga-reset
> > git://github.com/awilliam/qemu-vfio.git vfio-vga-reset
> > 
> > Also with latest seabios and it worked so far. No more BSOD and reboot
> > of VM was also possible without suspend / resume the host between.
> 
> Good to hear.  It looks like you have the same motherboard as my AMD
> test system.  An HD7850 in that system runs quite reliably with the
> branches above although I do occasionally get VGA palette corruption.
> 

Good to know. I'm using a Radeon HD7870 which works fine now. I have the
same VGA palette corruption occasionally but only until Catalyst driver
is loaded. So it happens sometimes during VGA init if Windows 7 boot
logo is shown with very strange colors and went away if Catalyst driver
is loaded.

> Are you still require -vga cirrus or do the -vga none, x-vga=on cases
> work now too?  Thanks,
> 

No longer required, -vga none with x-vga=on work on your branches fine
now. Not sure if there was something more changed because with original
Fedora 3.9.2 kernel it still doesn't work.

> Alex
> 

--Maik