Re: Intel HD Graphics 4600 Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 7 Ultimate HVM domU

["Ren, Yongjie" <yongjie.ren@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> [mailto:singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:33 PM
> To: Ren, Yongjie
> Cc: Pasi K?rkk?inen; Zhang, Xiantao; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Teo En Ming
> (Zhang Enming); Ian Campbell
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Intel HD Graphics 4600 Xen VGA Passthrough to
> Windows 7 Ultimate HVM domU
> 
> On 24/07/2013 18:33, Ren, Yongjie wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> >> [mailto:singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 5:04 PM
> >> To: Pasi Kärkkäinen
> >> Cc: Ren, Yongjie; xen-users@lists.xen.org; Zhang, Xiantao;
> >> xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> >> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Intel HD Graphics 4600 Xen VGA Passthrough
> to
> >> Windows 7 Ultimate HVM domU
> >>
> >> On 23/07/2013 20:03, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:57:08PM +0000, Ren, Yongjie wrote:
> >>>>> Any Intel engineers here who can advise?
> >>>>>
> >>>> I'm also doing some testing but seems we didn't meet a similar issue
> >> with yours.
> >>>> Which CPU are you using?
> >>>> My Haswell desktop CPU (Core i5-4670) doesn't have the same IGD
> as
> >> yours.
> >>>> And, I'll have some update after I doing more testing.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best Regards,
> >>>>        Yongjie (Jay)
> >>>>
> >>> Hello Yongjie,
> >>>
> >>> Can you please describe the following info about your GPU passthru
> >> setup:
> >>> - Xen hypervisor version/changeset
> >>> - Any patches to Xen?
> >>> - Cmdline options to Xen
> >>> - dom0 linux kernel version
> >>> - Cmdline options to dom0 linux kernel
> >>> - HVM guest OS/version
> >>> - IGD driver version in the HVM guest
> >>> - dom0 configuration and settings; I assume you're using xen-pciback?
> >> Did you blacklist igd driver in dom0 kernel? etc.
> >>> I think that'd be helpful for others to get a similar baseline
> configuration.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> -- Pasi
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Dear Yongjie,
> >>
> >> Could you share with us your hardware and software configuration
> >> settings?
> >>
> > Sure. My IGD is also Intel HD Graphics 4600. :-)
> >
> > 1. hypervisor version: c/s 26666 in xen-unstable.hg tree  (5 months ago)
> >    traditional qemu commit:
> 5ae58eaa967495fce99b727422054c58750d252b
> >    Dom0 kernel: Linux 3.8.1
> > N.B. I didn't use the latest traditional qemu because of the following bug:
> > http://bugzilla-archived.xenproject.org//bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1865
> >
> > 2. no offline patch. (just use the code in the tree I mentioned above.)
> >
> > 3. hypervisor options: dom0_mem=1024M iommu=1 loglvl=all
> guest_loglvl=all unrestricted_guest=1 msi=1
> >    dom0 kernel options: ro root=/dev/sda1
> >
> > 4. HVM guest: Windows 7 Enterprise
> >
> > 5. IGD driver version in HVM: 9.18.10.3165
> >    got to: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/
> >    then, search "4th Generation Intel Core Processors with intel hd
> graphics 4600" to download the driver.
> >
> > 6. use 'xl pci-assignable-add $BDF' to add the IGD as assignable.
> >    (it also use 'xen.pciback' driver.)
> >
> > 7. dom0 kernel config is attached as file 'config-3.8.1'.
> >
> > 8. HVM guest config file:
> > builder= "hvm"
> > name= "vga-passthrough"
> > memory =1024
> > vcpus=4
> > device_model_override= '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> > device_model_version= 'qemu-xen-traditional'
> > disk = [ '/images/ia32e_win7.qcow,qcow2,xvda,rw' ]
> > vnc=1
> > serial='pty'
> > usb = 1
> > usbdevice = 'tablet'
> > gfx_passthru=1
> > pci = ['00:02.0','00:1d.0','07:00.0']  #'00:02.0' is IGD; the other two are
> mouse and keyboard.
> >
> > 9. I can successfully assign this IGD 4600 (in Core i5-4670 CPU) to the
> Windows guest. And the IGD can work fine.
> >    See some attached pictures for more info.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >       Yongjie (Jay)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to compile Xen 4.3-unstable changeset 26666 when I
> encountered the following error.
> 
Sorry, I've no idea about this since I didn't meet that issue.

> /usr/bin/ld: vl.o: undefined reference to symbol
> 'timer_settime@@GLIBC_2.3.3'
> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'timer_settime@@GLIBC_2.3.3' is defined in DSO
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 so try adding it to the linker command line
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[5]: *** [qemu-dm] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/home/teo-en-ming/xen-unstable.hg-cs26666/tools/qemu-xen-traditional-
> dir-remote/i386-dm'
> make[4]: *** [subdir-i386-dm] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/teo-en-ming/xen-unstable.hg-cs26666/tools/qemu-xen-traditional-
> dir-remote'
> make[3]: *** [subdir-install-qemu-xen-traditional-dir] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/teo-en-ming/xen-unstable.hg-cs26666/tools'
> make[2]: *** [subdirs-install] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/teo-en-ming/xen-unstable.hg-cs26666/tools'
> make[1]: *** [install-tools] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/teo-en-ming/xen-unstable.hg-cs26666'
> make: *** [world] Error 2
> 
> Related information:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/283347
> 
> How can I fix this issue?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> --
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)