[libvirt-users] Cannot Write xvga=yes in xml file

[Laine Stump]

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On 01/05/2018 02:58 AM, Rogue S.T wrote:
> Yes, I can use guest with this way, But when i hot-add my graphics card
> , Guest will  reboot.

It's very .... "ambitious" to expect hot-plug of a vfio-assigned
graphics card to work properly. I doubt that has been tested much, if at
all - vfio and QEMU might handle it properly, but it's very likely that
the guest OS would not.

> So i want to try it with <hostdev>. Somehow , If i use "hostdev" without
> xvga , my screen will be black.
> If we have no  hostdev, do you have other methods can help me to use
> hot-plug my graphics card? 

I didn't say there is no <hostdev>, I said that the <hostdev> element
has no attribute called "xvga".

QEMU itself *does* have a commandline option called "xvga" though, and
that can be set using libvirt's "QEMU commandline passthrough",
following the directions on the page that I linked in my original
response. Of course, QEMU commandline passthrough can't be used when
hot-plugging devices - maybe that's what you're trying to point out; if
that's really your problem, then there is no solution (other than to not
hot-plug the GPU).


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> At 2018-01-04 23:27:52, "Laine Stump" <laine at redhat.com> wrote:
>>On 12/20/2017 09:40 PM, Rogue S.T wrote:
>>> Hello,my system info:
>>>     virsh verison
>>>     Compiled against library: libvirt 3.9.0
>>>     Using library: libvirt 3.9.0 
>>>     Using API: QEMU 3.9.0
>>>     Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.10.90
>>> And i want to pass through my gpu to my window 7 guest with <hostdev>,
>>> next line is comand i use:
>>>      <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes' xvga='yes'>
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>>I'm not sure where you got the idea that libvirt's <hostdev> element had
>>an attribute called "xvga", but it doesn't.
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>>If your GPU needs to have QEMU's xvga setting turned on, this posting
>>from ALex's blog explains how to do it using libvirt's QEMU commandline
>>passthrough:
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>>http://vfio.blogspot.com/2016/09/passing-qemu-command-line-options.html
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>>I would recommend reading all the other postings in his blog as well, as
>>they are very informative.
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>>>       <source>
>>>         <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
>>>       </source>
>>>       <rom bar='on' file='/root/gpu.dump'/>
>>>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07'
>>> function='0x0'/>
>>>     </hostdev>
>>> But i get this error: 
>>>         XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to
>>> validate doc against /ocl/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng
>>>         Extra element devices in interleave
>>>         Element domain failed to validate content
>>> If i delete xvga='yes',it's ok, but i get a other question, my display
>>> is not light.
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