Re: Re : Secondary VGA Passthrough, nvidia, win7: success report.

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:23 PM, David TECHER <davidtecher@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Could you tell me what version of Xen? 4.1.0? 4.1.2?
>

As it is stated before this is a 4.1.2 version with debian patches


>
> By the way could you send your patches attached to a mail so I could try?
>

- There's also a link to tobias patche's on the first post.


>
> Test on Xen 4.2 failed (desktop stays to lag...)
>

Have u tried to force windows to activate the aero desktop ?


>
> With installing xen 4.1.0/4.2.0 over my xen 4.2, domU boot but nothing
> appears on screen.
>

I also followed tobias (same as yours) instructions to dump and build
vgabios-pt.bin into xen, did u do it also ?


>
> Strange.
>
>   ------------------------------
> *De :* -+= Lta =+- <lta@akr.fm>
> *À :* xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 6 Janvier 2012 17h48
> *Objet :* [Xen-devel] Secondary VGA Passthrough, nvidia, win7: success
> report.
>
> Hello xen-devel,
>
>
> This is my first post on this list and as such i might be breaking some
> explicit/implicit rules and i apologize if it's the case. Maybe this list
> isn't the exact right kind of place where to post this kind of stuff, but i
> know lots of us are browsing this list as the primary source of
> documentation for xen.
>
> I've read many times windows 7 isn't the right os to run on top of xen.
> Most of the guy's who are running vga passthru are recommanding to use
> windows xp, and i've never seen any success report of vga passthru on
> windows 7 so i thought it was important to post mine.
>
> Anyway, here's my hardware setup :
> - Gigabyte GA-990X-UD3
> - AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Processor
> - MSI Cyclone NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460
>
> On the software side i'm using :
>
> - Debian testing as Dom0
> - Xen-4.1 (debian version 4.1.2-2) with what's now referred to as "Tobias
> Geiger patches" (
> http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-05/msg00441.html)
> (You have to edit the patches, changing the path to some qemu source files
> for them to apply)
> - debian's kernel  3.1.5, compiled to include the pciback driver. Here's
> the output of `cat /boot/my3.1.5config | grep -i xen`
> CONFIG_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
> CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128
> CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y
> # CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_PCI_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=m
> CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC=m
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=m
> CONFIG_INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
> CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_WDT=m
> CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
> # Xen driver support
> CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
> # CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set
> CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
> CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=m
> CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND=y
> CONFIG_XENFS=m
> CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y
> CONFIG_XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
> CONFIG_XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=m
> CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC=m
> CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI=m
> CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND=y
>
> The kernel boot options are 'nomodeset xen-pciback.passthrough=1
> xen-pciback.hide=(01:00.0)(01:00.1)'
>
> - Here's my win7 domU config file :
>
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-4.1/boot/hvmloader"
> builder='hvm'
> memory = 3072
> name = "w7"
> vif = [ 'type=netfront,bridge=xenbr0, mac=00:16:3e:35:49:62']
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/w7-xen/system,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/w7-xen/appz,hdb,w']
> device_model = '/usr/lib/xen-4.1/bin/qemu-dm'
> boot="dc"
>
> pci=['01:00.0','01:00.1']
> gfx_passthru=1
>
> vcpus=6
> acpi=1
> sdl=0
> vnc=1
> vncconsole=1
> vncpasswd=''
> serial='pty'
> usbdevice='tablet'
> pae=1
> pci_msitranslate=0
> pci_power_mgmt=0
> acpi_s3 = 1
> acpi_s4 = 1
> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> on_reboot   = 'restart'
> on_crash    = 'restart'
> xen_platform_pci=1
> hpet = 1
> viridian=1
> monitor=1
> xen_extended_power_mgmt=2
> hpet=1
>
> What's important here for the Nvidia drivers to work and not give a nice
> nvlddmkm.sys BSOD is:
> pci_msitranslate=0
> pci_power_mgmt=0
>
> - Windows 7 32bits
> - Nvidia drivers 275.33
> - You have to manually run aero speed test or force aero to start by using
> registry entries for the desktop not to be laggy
>
> The windows 7 domU is running fine with no performance decrease
> noticeable, although i've not yet played intensive gpu video game, i'm
> still pretty confident they'll run fine.
>
> Anyway. i've still some problems i shall report in separate posts :
> - The PCI bus topology isn't preserved, and the gfx card, which is plugged
> on 01:00 becomes 05:00 on domU.
> - I'm passing through an RME Hdsp / hammerfall pci sound card to the domU
> and while it is working fine on his own, there's a strange interaction
> between it and the GPLPV network driver. When i start playing sound, the
> network instantly cease working. It starts back as soon as i stop playing
> audio.
>
> That's all folks,
>
> Cheers,
> Lta
>
>
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