Am 05.08.2016 10:22, schrieb Rokas Kupstys:
Okay this is unexpected luck. After more tinkering i got it to work!
Here is my setup:
* AMD FX-8350 CPU + Sabertooth 990FX R2 motherboard
* 0000:01:00.0 - gpu in first slot
* 0000:06:00.0 - gpu in third slot
* UEFI on host and guest.
* Archlinux
In order to make host use non-boot GPU:
1. Add Kernel boot parameter "video=efifb:off". This makes kernel not
use first gpu and boot messages appear on second gpu.
2. Bind first gpu (0000:01:00.0) to vfio-pci driver. I did this by
adding line
options vfio-pci ids=1002:677B,1002:AA98
to /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf. They are obtained from "lspci -n" which in
my case show:
01:00.0 0300: 1002:677B
01:00.1 0403: 1002:AA98
3. Configure xorg to use second gpu (0000:06:00.0). I added file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/secondary-gpu.conf with contents:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "AMD Corporation"
BoardName "AMD Secondary"
BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
EndSection
And thats it! Now when machine boots it shows POST messages and
bootloader on first gpu, but as soon as boot option is selected display
goes blank and kernel boot messages show on second gpu. After boot you
can assign first gpu to VM as usual and it works.
HELP REQUEST: could someone with intel hardware (ideally x99 chipset)
test this method? I am planning a build and if this works i could
settle with 28 lane cpu and save couple hundred dollars. Intel's 40
lane cpus are way overpriced.. And with 28 lane cpus only first slot
can run at x16 speed while other slots downgrade to x8 or less. Anyhow
i would love to hear if this works on intel hardware.
Hi,
I have a Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 motherboard and i7-5820K. There are two
GPUs
in it - a GTX 970 for pass-through on 03:00.0 and a GT 730 as primary
GPU
on 06:00.0. The PCIE slot of the GT is selected as primary video output
in the UEFI settings. All text and graphics output goes to it - the
output
of the GTX card remains off the entire time until the VM is booted. The
X
server does see both cards but since the nvidia module is prevented from
binding to the GTX, X cannot use it and starts on the GT. No fiddling
with
the console driver parameters necessary.
Distribution:
Arch Linux, 4.6.4-1-ARCH
Kernel parameters:
... pci-stub.ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb,8086:8d20 nvidia-drm.modeset=1
...
/etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf:
options vfio-pci ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb,8086:8d20
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
...
MODULES="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd vfat aes_x86_64
crc32c_intel nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm"
...
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "ConnectToAcpid" "0"
EndSection
The only problem with my setup is that the GTX is in PCIE_2, which works
as x8 with i7-5820K installed. I cannot fit the card in PCIE_1 because
of
the oversized CPU cooler. This doesn't actually bug me at all as
multiple
tests (for example, [1]) have shown negligible difference in gaming FPS
between PCI-e 3.0 x8 and x16. The GT card is in PCIE_4.
Kind regards,
Hristo
[1]
http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus
Rokas Kupstys
On 2016.08.05 10:34, Rokas Kupstys wrote:
I think i got half-way there.. My primary gpu is at 0000:01:00.0 and
secondary on 0000:06:00.0. I used following xorg config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "AMD Corporation"
BoardName "AMD Secondary"
BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
EndSection
After booting 0000:06:00.0 was still bound to vfio-pci (im yet to sort
it out why as i removed modprobe configs and kernel parameters) and i
ran following script to bind gpu to correct driver:
#!/bin/bash
unbind() {
dev=$1
if [ -e /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/driver ]; then
echo "${dev}" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/driver/unbind
while [ -e /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/driver ]; do
sleep 0.1
done
fi
}
bind() {
dev=$1
driver=$2
vendor=$(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/vendor)
device=$(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/device)
echo "${vendor} ${device}" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/${driver}/new_id
echo "$dev" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/${driver}/bind
}
unbind "0000:06:00.0"
bind "0000:06:00.0" "radeon"
#unbind "0000:01:00.0"
After restarting sddm.service (display manager) i could switch to
secondary gpu and log in to desktop. All worked. Problem is i can not
unbind 0000:01:00.0 so i could pass-through it. Attempt to unbind
driver
resulted in display freezing. Even secondary gpu froze.
Rokas Kupstys
On 2016.08.05 04:55, Nicolas Roy-Renaud wrote:
That's something you should fix in the BIOS. The boot GPU is special
because the motherboard has to use it to display things such as POST
messages and such, so it's already "tainted" by the time the kernel
gets a hold of it. I had to put my guest GPU on my motherboard's
second PCI slot because of that (can't change the boot GPU in the BIOS
settings), which is pretty unconveinient because it blocks access to
most of my sata ports.
If there's a way to cleanly pass the boot GPU to a VM, I don't know
about it. I'd be interested to know too, however.
- Nicolas
On 2016-08-04 13:59, Rokas Kupstys wrote:
Hey is it possible to make kernel use GPU other than one that is in
first slot? If so - how?
I have multiple PCIe slots but only first can run at max speed so i
would like to use it for VGA passthrough. However if i put powerful GPU
into the first slot - linux boots using that GPU. I would like to make
kernel use GPU in slot 3. So result should be bios and bootloader
running on gpu in slot #1, but kernel should use gpu in slot #3. I
tried
binding first gpu to vfio-pci driver hoping kernel would use next
available gpu. That did not work, i could see one line with systemd
version in low-res console (normally its high-res). I also tryed
fbcon=map:1234 (not exactly being sure what im doing) but that yielded
black screen. Not sure what else i could try.
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