Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-29 Thread Paige Thompson
> Brett > > Sent from my BlackBerry - the most secure mobile device > > Original Message > From: k...@tripleback.net > Sent: December 28, 2018 1:33 PM > To: vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. > >

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-12-29 at 11:49 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 16:04 -0500, Kyle Marek wrote: > > q35 is the newer one with better support for more CPUs, PCI-E vs PCI, > > integrated SATA vs integrated IDE emulation, IOMMU emulation, and I > > *think* it is needed for hotplug

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 16:04 -0500, Kyle Marek wrote: > q35 is the newer one with better support for more CPUs, PCI-E vs PCI, > integrated SATA vs integrated IDE emulation, IOMMU emulation, and I > *think* it is needed for hotplugging CPUs/memory. [I wish people wouldn't top-post, but anyway ...]

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-29 Thread Javier Celaya
kBerry - the most secure mobile device > > Original Message > From: k...@tripleback.net > Sent: December 28, 2018 1:33 PM > To: vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. > > Your anecdotal evidence is meaningless, please, do

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-28 Thread Brett Foster
t Sent from my BlackBerry - the most secure mobile device   Original Message   From: k...@tripleback.net Sent: December 28, 2018 1:33 PM To: vfio-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. Your anecdotal evidence is meaningless, please, don't enc

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-28 Thread Kash Pande
Your anecdotal evidence is meaningless, please, don't encourage others to use obsolete machine types. Plenty have profiled it and even the developers tell you that Q35 is the way to go. "Surprisingly stable" is not a sound endorsement of i440fx. If you couldn't make an AMD GPU work, that's probably

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-28 Thread Brett Foster
y.sx > Sent: December 27, 2018 12:12 PM > To: fost...@edgeandvertex.org; b...@spamcop.net > Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. > > > BTW I think the specific reason you want to separate your pcie endpoints on >

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-28 Thread Kyle Marek
ber 27, 2018 12:12 PM > To: fost...@edgeandvertex.org; b...@spamcop.net > Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. > > > BTW I think the specific reason you want to separate your pcie endpoints on > q35 from the root complex using

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-27 Thread Bronek Kozicki
m: erra...@yourstruly.sx > > Sent: December 27, 2018 12:12 PM > > To: fost...@edgeandvertex.org; b...@spamcop.net > > Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com > > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. > > > > > > BTW I think the specific r

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-27 Thread Brett Foster
M To: fost...@edgeandvertex.org; erra...@yourstruly.sx; vfio-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. Some Linuxes do not boot on 440FX (at least, not for me with booting with UEFI, which is recommended for GPU passthrough). B. On Thu, 27 Dec 2018, at 8:18

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-27 Thread Bronek Kozicki
her doesn't (unless > you have better luck getting the windows remote kernel debugging to work > than I have.) > > From: vfio-users-boun...@redhat.com on > behalf of Brett Foster > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2018 11:24:48 AM >

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-27 Thread Brett Foster
p.net Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. BTW I think the specific reason you want to separate your pcie endpoints on q35 from the root complex using a switch or up/downstream ports is due to the fact that the root complex has direct a

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-27 Thread Paige Thompson
to work than I have.) From: vfio-users-boun...@redhat.com on behalf of Brett Foster Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2018 11:24:48 AM To: Bronek Kozicki Cc: vfio-users Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting. I have been using AMD via i440fx fo

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-26 Thread Brett Foster
I have been using AMD via i440fx for like 5 years or so (across different hardware and graphics cards). The drivers that work are the ones that come via Windows Update. The drivers distributed by AMD do not. Not sure why since presumably they come from the same place. lol. On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-25 Thread Bronek Kozicki
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, at 4:21 PM, Paige Thompson wrote: > Hey, > > From what I understand in general connecting devices straight to the > root complex is problematic and they should be connected to a bridge. I > was kind of wondering if anybody had any knowledge of this. I find the > configurat

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-25 Thread Paige Thompson
Hey, >From what I understand in general connecting devices straight to the root >complex is problematic and they should be connected to a bridge. I was kind of >wondering if anybody had any knowledge of this. I find the configuration >really confusing. I still cant really tell how the topology

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-25 Thread Bronek Kozicki
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, at 12:57 PM, Paige Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > As you probably know there is a workaround to use i440fx instead of q35 > to get the R9 390 working with VFIO. However, I have managed to get it > working with Q35 by adding a PCIe bridge as well as upstream and > downstream port

Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

2018-12-25 Thread Paige Thompson
Hi, As you probably know there is a workaround to use i440fx instead of q35 to get the R9 390 working with VFIO. However, I have managed to get it working with Q35 by adding a PCIe bridge as well as upstream and downstream ports to the configuration. You've probably noticed that the R9 390 card