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Re: [Xen-devel] PCI USB Passthrough on Kernel 3.5 and 3.6 not working (HVM or PVM)


  • To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Pavel Mateja <pavel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:14:22 +0200
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:15:21 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

> Hi Xenners,
> 
> I have tried to upgrade to kernel 3.5 and experienced the USB/PCI
> passthrough problem.  This has not been "fixed" in 3.6 either.  I do not
> know if this is qemu, xen or kernel related.
> 
> I am using Xen 4.2 final and Xen 4.3-unstable to test.
> 
> DomU is Windows 7 64 bit or Linux Fedora 17.  In Windows, I get the
> little yellow triangle with Code 10 (I know this means nothing...
> really).  In linux, the PCI device is recognised, but a few seconds
> later disabled due to a "fatal error", no more details than that in
> dmesg.
> 
> Dom0 retains full control over the USB controller (this is not the case
> when passthrough works, xl switches between Dom0 and DomU depending on
> who claims the device).
> 
> In both Windows and Linux (lspci), the device is "seen" but cannot be
> activated.
> 
> In Dom0, the device is assigned to the guest (xl pci-list show that it
> is assigned and has a valid guest PCI ID).
> 
> Xen logs are normal, devices get assigned as if they were working with a
> kernel 3.3.4 Dom0 - no errors according to xen logs or xl dmesg.
> 
> VGA PCI passthrough works 100%.
> 
> I tried also with device model qemu-xen, but then passthrough doesn't
> work at all (no VGA either), even with upstream QEMU from git.
> 
> Please tell me if I'm missing something obvious or if I can provide more
> information for troubleshooting!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andi

Hi,
did you try the resource_allignment workaround?
What is your HW anyway?
-- 
Pavel Mateja

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