Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough and abstraction

2019-04-25 Thread Laine Stump
On 4/25/19 10:14 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: So I am reading through , and am wondering what is the difference between and if I am trying to give full access to a NIC? Which one exposes more of the card? I also answered this on IRC, but just in case someone is looking through the email

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough and abstraction

2019-04-25 Thread Mauricio Tavares
So I am reading through , and am wondering what is the difference between and if I am trying to give full access to a NIC? Which one exposes more of the card? On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 1:13 PM Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > When you pass a device in the pci chain (after virsh > nodedev-dettach

[libvirt-users] PCI passthrough and abstraction

2019-04-24 Thread Mauricio Tavares
When you pass a device in the pci chain (after virsh nodedev-dettach'ing it from host) to the guest, how much is passed without being emulated/abstracted? ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lib

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough fails in virsh: iommu group is not viable

2015-09-25 Thread Laine Stump
On 09/24/2015 03:26 PM, Alex Holst wrote: Quoting Laine Stump (la...@laine.org): On 08/12/2015 02:34 PM, Alex Holst wrote: I would really appreciate some pointers on what I am doing wrong here. I have a need to run multiple virtual guests which have each their own GPU and some USB controllers

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough fails in virsh: iommu group is not viable

2015-09-24 Thread Alex Holst
Quoting Laine Stump (la...@laine.org): > On 08/12/2015 02:34 PM, Alex Holst wrote: > > I would really appreciate some pointers on what I am doing wrong here. > > > > I have a need to run multiple virtual guests which have each their own GPU > > and > > some USB controllers passed-through. I am abl

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough fails in virsh: iommu group is not viable

2015-08-12 Thread Laine Stump
On 08/12/2015 02:34 PM, Alex Holst wrote: > I would really appreciate some pointers on what I am doing wrong here. > > I have a need to run multiple virtual guests which have each their own GPU and > some USB controllers passed-through. I am able to run one of the guests like > this (assuming vfio

[libvirt-users] PCI passthrough fails in virsh: iommu group is not viable

2015-08-12 Thread Alex Holst
I would really appreciate some pointers on what I am doing wrong here. I have a need to run multiple virtual guests which have each their own GPU and some USB controllers passed-through. I am able to run one of the guests like this (assuming vfio stuff has happened elsewhere), but I would prefer t

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough of 2 identical devices

2014-03-13 Thread junkmail
and voila the guest started with the 2 cards successfully inside, even mythtv works ... for now. i hope to find a way to somehow rearrange the irqs as i sometimes need USB on the machine :D wbr,tja... - Ursprüngliche Mail - Von: "Laine Stump" An: libvirt-users@redhat.com CC

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough of 2 identical devices

2014-03-12 Thread Thomas Jagoditsch
rearrange the irqs as i sometimes need USB on the machine :D wbr,tja... - Ursprüngliche Mail - Von: "Laine Stump" An: libvirt-users@redhat.com CC: "Thomas Jagoditsch" Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. März 2014 16:13:15 Betreff: Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough of 2 ident

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough of 2 identical devices

2014-03-12 Thread Laine Stump
On 03/12/2014 06:29 AM, Thomas Jagoditsch wrote: > hi, > > i have a small trouble with pci-passthrough. > > i have a working configuration passing a tv card into the guest, all is fine > and dandy. > as soon as i add my second identical card into the host i cant start the > guest anymore, whether

[libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough of 2 identical devices

2014-03-12 Thread Thomas Jagoditsch
hi, i have a small trouble with pci-passthrough. i have a working configuration passing a tv card into the guest, all is fine and dandy. as soon as i add my second identical card into the host i cant start the guest anymore, whether i add the second card to the guest or not. error message is i

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough

2014-01-23 Thread The PowerTool
hanks, again! Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:37:02 +0200 From: la...@laine.org To: thepowertool...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough On 01/21/2014 05:32 PM, The PowerTool wrote: Laine, Thank you very much for yo

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough

2014-01-21 Thread Laine Stump
On 01/19/2014 04:13 AM, The PowerTool wrote: > I'm trying to pass-through my VGA card to a guest session. > > I found: > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM - > which is very frustrating because there's no date on the > documentation. I suspect it's old. It does

[libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough

2014-01-18 Thread The PowerTool
I'm trying to pass-through my VGA card to a guest session. I found: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM - which is very frustrating because there's no date on the documentation. I suspect it's old. It does clearly say that you must have VT-d support for pci p

[libvirt-users] PCI passthrough troubles

2012-07-14 Thread mike allison
Hello, I have been struggling as of late to successfully configure a pci passthrough using libvirt with kvm. Hoping someone can shed some light on the problem. Overall my experience with virtualization limited is so please forgive. The guest runs fine till passthrough is configured. I am using vir

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI-Passthrough suddenly stopped working

2012-07-12 Thread Rouven Sacha
Am 12.07.2012 00:38, schrieb Eric Blake: This may be the result of a security fix in the new kernel. I know at least one older version of Intel chips has a bug where IOMMU can be exploited by a guest to take control over the host, so on those chips, newer kernels now require to explicitly enabl

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI-Passthrough suddenly stopped working

2012-07-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/11/2012 04:24 PM, Rouven Sacha wrote: > Hi everybody! > > On a Centos 5.8 with libvirt qemu-0.10.5-1.el5.2, libvirt-0.8.2-22.el5 > and 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 I have a Windows machine that used to have > pci-passthrough for a device enabled and working. > > After an update (kernel, libvirt afai

[libvirt-users] PCI-Passthrough suddenly stopped working

2012-07-11 Thread Rouven Sacha
Hi everybody! On a Centos 5.8 with libvirt qemu-0.10.5-1.el5.2, libvirt-0.8.2-22.el5 and 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 I have a Windows machine that used to have pci-passthrough for a device enabled and working. After an update (kernel, libvirt afaik) and a reboot, pci-passthrough stopped working. Int

[libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Hierweck
Hi, I'm trying to passthrough legacy PCI ISDN controller to a KVM based virtual machine: This only worked once. (The device disappeared from the lspci autoput the host and was listed on the guest.) After shutting down the virtual maschine it refused to start again. Even rebootin

[libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough, AMD, fails to initialize

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Sanders
I'm looking for assistance with pci-passthrough on CentOS 6.2. I've installed libvirt version: 0.9.4, package: 23.el6_2.8 from yum. I have a windows XP client setup via virt-manager which boots and runs fine until I attempt to assign a PCI device to it. The error log reads: -/var/l

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough error

2012-04-10 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Jaap Winius : ... Anyway I guess now it's USB passthrough or bust. Or get a board with an IOMMU. In case anyone is ever interested, I did eventually manage to solve this problem with a wrapper script, although not exactly the way David Wragg explains in his blog. With Debian sque

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough error

2012-03-29 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Jaap Winius : error: internal error Process exited while reading console \ log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 assigned_dev_pci_read: pread failed, ret = 0 errno = 2 It turns out this is a KVM bug related to the Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel I was using with D

Re: [libvirt-users] PCI passthrough error

2012-03-29 Thread Wen Congyang
At 03/30/2012 05:41 AM, Jaap Winius Wrote: > Hi folks, > > Has anyone encountered the following PCI passthrough error? > > error: internal error Process exited while reading console \ > log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 > assigned_dev_pci_read: pread failed, ret = 0 er

[libvirt-users] PCI passthrough error

2012-03-29 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, Has anyone encountered the following PCI passthrough error? error: internal error Process exited while reading console \ log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 assigned_dev_pci_read: pread failed, ret = 0 errno = 2 It's produced after I've detached the PCI devic

[libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough

2010-06-02 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
Hi Everyone, When I try and assign a physical device to a guest using virt-manager, libvirt throws an error: "Failed to create inactive domain" I'm using libvirt 0.8.1 which I compiled myself, along with Xen 4.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 Dom0 I'm also using virt-manager 0.8.4 which I compiled myself