From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" Subject: Re: Cannot start Fedora 19 HVM domU with VGA passthru Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:55:55 +0800 Message-ID: <51E7C9BB.6090909@gmail.com> References: <51E6B95E.3020500@gmail.com> <20130717215625.GL2924@reaktio.net> <51E7A94E.50005@gmail.com> <6d8cfa90cde86eca5915ff398872b459@mail.shatteredsilicon.net> <51E7BE5F.8000504@gmail.com> <51E7C158.5090706@gmail.com> <51E7C633.6080005@gmail.com> <6ea9f69987a517fe0b1eca8ff677ebf3@mail.shatteredsilicon.net> Reply-To: singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6ea9f69987a517fe0b1eca8ff677ebf3@mail.shatteredsilicon.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Gordan Bobic Cc: xen-users@lists.xen.org, "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 18/07/2013 18:44, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:40:51 +0800, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming > (Zhang Enming)" wrote: >> On 18/07/2013 18:29, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:20:08 +0800, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En >>> Ming (Zhang Enming)" wrote: >>>> On 18/07/2013 18:09, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:07:27 +0800, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En >>>>> Ming (Zhang Enming)" wrote: >>>>>> On 18/07/2013 16:46, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:37:34 +0800, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo >>>>>>> En Ming (Zhang Enming)" wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Although Fedora 19 HVM domU with VGA passthrough cannot start, >>>>>>>> Debian >>>>>>>> 7.1.0 amd64 HVM domU with VGA passthrough can start. In Debian >>>>>>>> 7.1.0 >>>>>>>> amd64 HVM domU with VGA passthrough, Intel HD Graphics 4600 is >>>>>>>> listed >>>>>>>> in lspci -vvv. Please refer to lspci.txt. It is strange that no >>>>>>>> kernel >>>>>>>> module is being loaded for Intel HD Graphics 4600. There is no >>>>>>>> "Kernel >>>>>>>> driver in use" statement after VGA compatible controller: Intel >>>>>>>> Corporation Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) >>>>>>>> (prog-if >>>>>>>> 00 [VGA controller]). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No kernel driver is seen in lsmod. Please refer to lsmod.txt >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> When I tried to load the kernel module by executing "modprobe >>>>>>>> i915", >>>>>>>> it complains "no such device". >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ERROR: could not insert 'i915': No such device >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So is my Intel HD Graphics 4600 VGA Passthrough to Debian 7.1.0 >>>>>>>> amd64 >>>>>>>> HVM domU considered successful since the i915 driver cannot be >>>>>>>> loaded? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thank you very much. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If you have a driver in dom0 claiming the device (other than the >>>>>>> xen-pciback >>>>>>> driver), you cannot pass through that device. If you do lspci >>>>>>> -ccc on F19 >>>>>>> and you see the driver in use for that device being something >>>>>>> other than >>>>>>> xen-pciback, that would explain why you can't pass it through. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also, did you first do xl pci-assignable-add for that device? >>>>>>> This attempts >>>>>>> to detach the device from it's current driver but doesn't always >>>>>>> work >>>>>>> especially for GPUs. The only solution is blacklist the driver >>>>>>> for the >>>>>>> device in dom0. The downside is that you cannot run a GUI in >>>>>>> dom0 on that >>>>>>> device. >>>>>> >>>>>> I cannot start Fedora 19 HVM domU with VGA passthrough at all. Could >>>>>> you advise me on the workaround? >>>>>> >>>>>> As for the Intel HD Graphics (i915) driver, I have it blacklisted in >>>>>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf already. Please refer to attached >>>>>> blacklist.conf. >>>>> >>>>> Have you confirm that no other driver is bound to the device in >>>>> lspci -vvv? >>>>> Also what version of Xen are you running on each of the distros, >>>>> and which >>>>> dom0 kernel? >>>> >>>> I have checked "lsmod | grep i915" and the command doesn't return >>>> anything, which means the kernel module i915 is not loaded in dom0. >>> >>> Check lspci -vvv,find the device in the output and look for the >>> lines that say: >>> Kernel driver in use: >>> Kernel modules: >>> >>> The kernel driver might not be called the same thing in both kernels. >>> >>>> I am running Xen 4.4-unstable changeset 27238 with Linux kernel >>>> 3.11.0-rc1 on a Ubuntu 13.04 host. >>> >>> And on F19? >>> >>> Gordan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xen-devel mailing list >>> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org >>> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >>> >> >> Dear Gordan, >> >> I have checked lspci -vvv in Ubuntu 13.04 dom0 and the Kernel driver >> in use is pciback for Intel HD Graphics 4600 IGD. >> >> As for Fedora 19 HVM domU, I don't know because I cannot start it. > > Starting is not required to do this. Do it before starting the domU. > > Gordan > Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say. -- Yours sincerely, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)