Re: [vfio-users] IOMMU Group with PCI Bridge and 10gbe nic

2017-09-18 Thread Zachary Boley
I actually have 2 nics and 1 lan nic and I pass one of them to windows and use the other for host, its pretty easy in virtmanager especially if they are in their own groups. On Sep 14, 2017 3:11 PM, "Allen Dial" wrote: > Hi VFIO-Users, > > I have 2 of 3 2 port NICs that I would like to passthrou

Re: [vfio-users] Something killed passthrough

2017-08-16 Thread Zachary Boley
I believe i tried the one in virt-preview (edk2/OVMF_CODE.fd) but no dice. Or am I just mistaking something for another thing? On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Zachary Boley wrote: > >>

[vfio-users] Something killed passthrough

2017-08-16 Thread Zachary Boley
I'm on Fedora 24 and for some reason after i updated and rebooted the Windows VM will not actually initialize, it turns on but doesn't seem to actually use the GPU at all (can't get a signal from the GPU itself). I see that it definitely got enabled in dmesg and is in the same group as its always b

Re: [vfio-users] sr-iov support on main boards

2017-08-13 Thread Zachary Boley
Actually have a Xeon setup where ootb all iommu groups were sane and separated, I just use the second NIC on my motherboard for the Windows vm as virtio makes it a bottleneck On Aug 13, 2017 8:19 AM, "Torbjorn Jansson" < torbjorn.jans...@mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote: > On 2017-08-08 00:40, Alex Will

Re: [vfio-users] Speed tips requested

2017-03-26 Thread Zachary Boley
. I'd give most of that a good read because it does give you some small things to tune etc On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Zachary Boley wrote: > Just normal virtio, I have it set to that, don't know how I would go about > setting virtio scsi or if I would need too > > On

Re: [vfio-users] Speed tips requested

2017-03-26 Thread Zachary Boley
ad of SCSI? I've seen both recommended. > > Thanks, > Sarnex > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Zachary Boley > wrote: > >> From what I've read Red Hat recommends virtio with raw on no cache with >> io thread due to the reasons listed above. Not sure abou

Re: [vfio-users] Speed tips requested

2017-03-26 Thread Zachary Boley
>From what I've read Red Hat recommends virtio with raw on no cache with io thread due to the reasons listed above. Not sure about LVM but they did also say (or someone did) do not use BTRFS for keeping the image. The only optimization I would immediately recommended is to do host-passthrough as t

Re: [vfio-users] Best pinning strategy for latency / performance trade-off

2017-02-02 Thread Zachary Boley
I have 2 Xeon 5540s (4 physical and 4 logical per CPU) currently one entire CPU is dedicated to the vm (basically what it says in numa 0 in lscpu) I didn't quite get the guide, what would be the best setup to get the most out of the vm for gaming? Or is that the best configuration I have atm On Fe

Re: [vfio-users] Calling ALL VM experts - Seeking assistance with AMD FX CPUs

2017-01-31 Thread Zachary Boley
It seems everything is alright, I would try hugepages and see if that helps it describes how to do it in the arch wikis guide on pci passthrough On Jan 30, 2017 10:48 PM, "Alyx" wrote: > Hopefully this reply works. > So. I have an FX-8350. I have the exact issue as described, and believe > the p

Re: [vfio-users] Calling ALL VM experts - Seeking assistance with AMD FX CPUs

2017-01-29 Thread Zachary Boley
Need your vm configs to see if there's anything wrong On Jan 29, 2017 4:29 AM, "R" wrote: > First time doing this mailing list thing, hopefully I'm doing it right. > > Either way, myself and an acquaintance are both using GPU pass-through > methods to do a bit of gaming on our Linux machines, bo

Re: [vfio-users] Memory allocation with numatune

2017-01-27 Thread Zachary Boley
I don't understand numa but I have about the same setup (2x 5540s) which I've pinned respectively and everything seems alright as far as I can help perhaps, but have you looked into hugepages if that's your main issue? On Jan 27, 2017 1:21 PM, "sL1pKn07 SpinFlo" wrote: > Can you share the New vc

Re: [vfio-users] Stutter in games

2017-01-23 Thread Zachary Boley
Make sure you pin your cpus and possibly set huge pages, also don't use qcow2 use raw with no cache and native thread On Jan 23, 2017 11:18 AM, "Alex Williamson" wrote: > [re-adding vfio-users] > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:11 AM, wrote: > >> QEMU command is : >> >> >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> >>

Re: [vfio-users] Stuck at Tiano Core Splash Screen

2017-01-22 Thread Zachary Boley
I noticed you don't have the vendor_id args in the hyperv area https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#.22Error_43_:_Driver_failed_to_load.22_on_Nvidia_GPUs_passed_to_Windows_VMs Give that a read, that's usually what you need as well as kvm=hidden On Jan 22, 2017 2:54 PM, "

Re: [vfio-users] Xeon E5-2670 + ASRock Rack EP2C602

2016-12-23 Thread Zachary Boley
I run 2 Xeon 5540s currently with my passthrough build, nothing fancy just a normal Windows 10 VM with passthrough and everything seems setup real well (had to switch to RAW instead of qcow2). Other than the occasional audio scratch up it runs pretty much like windows would normally run. My only qu

Re: [vfio-users] Audio sync issues Windows 10

2016-12-17 Thread Zachary Boley
Doesn't look like it but are you passing a USB controller in for it? Can't really see how you're using audio On Dec 16, 2016 2:39 PM, "Brandon Ganem" wrote: > Hi all, > I've got a Windows 10 VM on top of arch linux. It appears that after some > period of time my audio / video loses sync for long

Re: [vfio-users] PCI Passthrough of GTX 980 on guest getting "unable to determine the device handle"

2016-12-15 Thread Zachary Boley
ill get the same error. > Those error messages don't seem to lead me anywhere on google either > unfortunately. > > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Zachary Boley wrote: > >> are you saying its not recognized in the host? but it works in the guest >> perfec

Re: [vfio-users] PCI Passthrough of GTX 980 on guest getting "unable to determine the device handle"

2016-12-07 Thread Zachary Boley
are you saying its not recognized in the host? but it works in the guest perfectly? ooor? I'm not quite understanding the problem sorry On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Vasko wrote: > I am doing passthrough from Ubuntu 14.04 3.19 (Host) to an Ubuntu 14.04 > guest 3.19. I have been testing w

Re: [vfio-users] Support for Passthrough

2016-11-22 Thread Zachary Boley
that? I'm trying to passthrough my headset into the vm, which works, just has very scratchy audio. On the plus side everything runs pretty well aside from networking for some reason (virtio drivers are installed for it) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Zachary Boley wrote: > confirmed its

Re: [vfio-users] Support for Passthrough

2016-11-21 Thread Zachary Boley
confirmed its SELinux, set it to permissive and it allowed the vm to start without trouble, im not very versed in SELinux so how would i let this be allowed from now on? On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Tho

Re: [vfio-users] Support for Passthrough

2016-11-21 Thread Zachary Boley
rom file. > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:16 AM Dawid Osuchowski < > tulph...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > >> Well, you didn’t attach or linked anything. >> >> On 21 Nov 2016, at 19:00, Zachary Boley wrote: >> >> ahh sorry didnt know, dont do mailing list

Re: [vfio-users] Support for Passthrough

2016-11-21 Thread Zachary Boley
https://u.teknik.io/pjOGy.xml woops sorry about that On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Dawid Osuchowski wrote: > Well, you didn’t attach or linked anything. > > On 21 Nov 2016, at 19:00, Zachary Boley wrote: > > ahh sorry didnt know, dont do mailing lists often. > heres th

Re: [vfio-users] Support for Passthrough

2016-11-21 Thread Zachary Boley
on a mailing list, click “Reply to All” or equivalent of that, > because you are responding directly to me and not to the list itself aswell. > > On 21 Nov 2016, at 18:52, Zachary Boley wrote: > > yes and after the dd it did work and verifies as a uefi rom, problem is no > matt

[vfio-users] Support for Passthrough

2016-11-18 Thread Zachary Boley
I've been at this for almost 2 weeks and im on the final steps, Error 43 and no matter what i do its always detected as a vm. I was referred to come here from the vfio subreddit. here are my specs/versions Compiled against library: libvirt 2.2.0 Using library: libvirt 2.2.0 Using API: QEMU 2.2.0 R