Re: [Xen-users] [Xen-devel] VGA passthough still not working

[Jethro Beekman <jethro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also have problems using passthrough. I have two graphics cards in my machine 
and I want to pass one (the secondary) of them to the Windows 7 VM. My system 
has VT-d, which is enabled, and Windows sees the device and nVidia driver 
installer works, but that's about it. In the device manager I see two devices 
with errors. One 'other device' named 'Xen pci device #0' (hardware ID: 
'xen\pci') with the message 'The drivers for this device are not installed. 
(Code 28)' and a 'display adapter' named 'NVIDIA NVS 4200M' (that is correct) 
with the message 'Windows has stopped this device because it has reported 
problems. (Code 43)'. Does anyone have any idea what causes these problems and 
whether this is supposed to work?
Jethro

On 20-01-12 12:32, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 05:49:20PM +0100, Sandi Romih wrote:
> >     Pasi,
> >
> >     I have that enabled in my BIOS, VT-d for the chipset and VT-x for the CPU.
> Ok. And Xen enables IOMMU? Did you verify from Xen's dmesg ?
>
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems.html#head-2f76ed2d3c282003418d37fbbcda510cac266f89
>
>
>
> >     Have you managed to pass your gpu through to the domU?
> No, I haven't tried that yet. I've been planning to, but I haven't had time for 
> it yet.
>
> There are many people who are using Xen VGA passthru with Intel, AMD/ATI and 
> Nvidia graphics cards.
> Currently it needs a lot of understanding and some custom patching, but you can 
> make it work.
>
> There are even businesses using Xen VGA passthru in production :)
>
> -- Pasi
>
> >     Sandi
> >
> >     On Jan 20, 2012 4:47 PM, "Pasi KÃrkkÃinen"<[1]pasik@xxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> >       On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:05:43PM +0100, Sandi Romih wrote:
> >       >     Hello,
> >       >     I have spent a lot of time trying to get gfx passthru working on my
> >       system
> >       >     without success.
> >       >     I looked onto my hardware capabilities again to make sure that it
> >       does
> >       >     support VT-d and I am not too sure that it does fully.
> >       >     My hardware is as follows:
> >       >     - Supermicro X8DTH-6F motherboard (5520 chipset which supports
> >       VT-d)
> >       >     - single Xeon X5650 CPU (which is listed as supporting VT-x, no
> >       mention of
> >       >     VT-d at [1][2]ark.intel.com)
> >       >     Now, according to the [2]VTdHowTo, the motherboard BIOS, chipset
> >       AND CPU
> >       >     need to support VT-d.
> >       >     What confuses me is, why is the 55x0 chipset listed there if none
> >       of the
> >       >     CPU's supported, that I know of, dont have the VT-d feature option,
> >       only
> >       >     VT-x.
> >       >
> >
> >       I've been using VT-d with Xen with Intel 5500 series chipset, and Xeon
> >       5600 series CPU.
> >       VT-d needs to be enabled in the BIOS.
> >
> >       -- Pasi
> >
> > References
> >
> >     Visible links
> >     1. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >     2. http://ark.intel.com/
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