<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">On December 9, 2015 at 04:50:18, Hristo Iliev (<a href="mailto:hristo@hiliev.eu">hristo@hiliev.eu</a>) wrote:</div> <div><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div></div><div>...<br>With linux-vfio-lts I can reboot the host at any time and the VM always<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>boots ok afterwards, even if the host was running linux-lts and the VM was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>hanging before the reboot. So, a more complete version of the above scenario<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>looks like this:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>...<br>I just performed a series of experiments and the latter scenario repeats<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>100% reliably. Both linux-vfio-lts and linux-lts are based on the 4.1.13<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>kernel. The VM is 64-bit Windows 10.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>As far as I know, the differences between linux-lts and linux-vfio-lts package are (I hope Dan can confirm this?):</p><p>1. Intel HD VGA Arbitration patch and PCIe ACS Override patch</p><p>2. config and config.x86_64 files</p><p>Probably there’re some kernel config in linux-lts that made the OVMF hang in your setup?</p><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div>I've noticed that whenever the VM hangs, qemu spits seven times the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>following:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>ehci: PERIODIC list base register set while periodic schedule<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>is enabled and HC is enabled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>...</div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>What happens if you do not passthrough any host USB. If you have one, try passing through a whole USB PCIe Controller?</p><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div>...<br>That's exactly what I'm doing - answering positively to the question<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>whether it should build the three packages at once. Despite that, it still<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>wants to build the headers package again afterwards, regardless of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>fact that linux-vfio-lts-headers was created and installed during the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>previous step.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div><p>Another alternative is to use Mark Weimann’s repository [1] to install a precompiled version of linux-vfio and linux-vfio-lts kernel package.</p></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#markzz</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="helvetica, arial">-- </font><br><span data-mce-style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; color: #020103; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" style="color: rgb(2, 1, 3);"><font face="Calibri"><b>Okky Hendriansyah</b></font></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div><br></div></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>