Re: Graphics card pass-through working with two pass pci-initialization

Jan Kiszka
2011-05-29T15:22:07Z

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On 2010-05-28 20:49, André Weidemann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28.05.2011 10:18, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-05-26 23:19, André Weidemann wrote:
>>> On 27.05.2011 21:50, André Weidemann wrote:
>>>> On 27.05.2011 21:40, André Weidemann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If I am not mistaken then the graphics card needs 2 bars, one with
>>>>> 256MB
>>>>> and one with 128K. The sound card then needs 1 bar with 16K of PCI
>>>>> memory.
>>>>> How big is the PCI memory with seabios?
>>>>> Is there really not enough space to "squeeze" in those extra 16K?
>>>>
>>>> I obviously forgot to add up the other memory that is used...
>>>> 32MB go to the standard VGA card. Running qemu-kvm with "-vga none" did
>>>> not work, so I left it in. And the e1000 NIC needs another 128K.
>>>>
>>>> I'll see if I can get rid of the standard VGA card. I guess that should
>>>> free enough memory for the sound card.
>>>
>>> I did some more testing by starting the VM with the paramter "-vga none"
>>> and passed both the VGA card and the sound card to it. With this option
>>> the VM did not boot,
>>
>> Where did it hang, ie. what IP was reported by info cpus?
>
> I added some debug options and found out, that the VM hangs when trying
> to initialize the graphics card ROM.
> See here:
> http://pastebin.com/S9a8uQfU
>
> And some additional info here:
>
> http://pastebin.com/AC4rw8Ek (info cpus/registers)
> http://pastebin.com/yYkn8jL2 (info pci)

Yeah, you definitely run out of PCI memory.

Plus you may suffer from the PAM/SMRAM bug I wrote about in the wiki.
Try if this hack improves the situation:

http://git.kiszka.org/?p=qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=96e600f43275310364c0310519d6ab6540bb7d25

Jan

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