Re: Requesting Assistance from Intel Engineers on Intel Integrated Graphics (IGD) VGA Passthrough for Xen 4.0.1-RELEASE and pv-ops dom0 kernel 2.6.32.x

["\"Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of Singapore\"" <space.time.universe@gmail.com>]

On 09/11/2010 06:21 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:57:26PM +0800, "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) ????????? of Singapore" wrote:
>    
>> Dear Intel Engineers,
>>
>> I am unable to get Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough to
>> work with Xen 4.0.1-rc6-pre, Xen 4.0.1-RELEASE, pv-ops dom0 kernel
>> 2.6.32.19 and 2.6.32.21. The moment the command "xm create<Windows XP
>> HVM guest>" is executed, the screen immediately goes blank with the
>> label "NO SIGNAL". It may take anywhere from 3-10 minutes before Windows
>> XP Home HVM domU starts booting. The HVM guest will subsequently crash
>> with a BSOD.
>>
>> I have posted configuration files, scripts, logs and kernel debug
>> messages in threads in the xen-devel mailing list in August 2010 and
>> September 2010.
>>
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/index.html
>>
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-09/index.html
>>
>> Please assist.
>>
>>      
> A couple of questions:
>
> - I assume the IGD is the primary graphics?
>    
Yes, the IGD is the primary display adapter.
> - Do you have other graphics adapters in the same machine?
>    
Yes, I have NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 graphics card in the 
same machine.
> - Can you please paste "lspci -vvv" from dom0.
>    
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1003
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
     Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
     Latency: 0
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26
     Region 0: Memory at d3400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
     Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
     Region 4: I/O ports at e220 [size=8]
     Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
     Capabilities: <access denied>
     Kernel driver in use: i915
     Kernel modules: i915

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS 
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
     Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
     Region 0: Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
[size=16M]
     Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] 
[size=256M]
     Region 3: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
[size=32M]
     Region 5: I/O ports at d000 [disabled] [size=128]
     Expansion ROM at d3000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
     Capabilities: <access denied>
     Kernel modules: nvidia


> - Also paste your grub.conf for the entry you're using for Xen.
>    
title Fedora (2.6.32.21-xen-enming.teo)
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M
     module /vmlinuz-2.6.32.21-xen-enming.teo ro 
root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora11_host-lv_root rhgb quiet selinux=0 nomodeset
     module /initrd-2.6.32.21-xen-enming.teo.img
> -- Pasi
>
>
>    

Thank you very much.

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