[vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.
Stano Lano
chl.xxx5x at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 11:56:35 UTC 2015
Hello all,
I also had problems with installing Catalyst higher than 14.12 for my r9
290 on both win 8.1 and 10.
BSOD and rebooting cycle after installing Catalyst.
The solution was to add ioh3420 and pass the GPU through it.
I using qemu from commandline with following parameters for GPU:
-device
ioh3420,bus=pcie.0,addr=1c.0,multifunction=on,port=1,chassis=1,id=root.1 \
-device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0 \
Afterwards win10 automatically installed the latest non-beta drivers
without problems.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Brian Chow <brianchow at digitaldescent.net>
wrote:
> Konstantin,
> Thank you so much. I had been struggling with this for 2 weeks now,
> where I could get bios to post / MS Basic Adapter working, but both Win8.1
> and Win10 would crash as soon as I installed the AMD drivers. Your method
> worked for me! Win10 accepted the driver.
>
> Just to add to Konstantin's post -- this is the qemu script I used to
> start/install windows 10.
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -name starscream \
> -enable-kvm \
> -m 8192 \
> -cpu host,kvm=off \
> -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 \
> -drive
> if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF-pure-efi.fd \
> -drive
> if=pflash,format=raw,file=/home/bchow/kvm/starscream/OVMF-starscream.fd \
> -drive
> file=/home/bchow/kvm/starscream/starscream.img,if=virtio,format=raw \
> -drive
> file=/home/bchow/Win10_English_x64.iso,format=raw,id=win10cd,if=none
> -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,drive=win10cd \
> -drive
> file=/home/bchow/virtio-win-0.1.110.iso,format=raw,id=virtiocd,if=none
> -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,drive=virtiocd \
> -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0 \
> -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.1 \
> -usb -usbdevice host:24f0:0141 \
> -usb -usbdevice host:046d:c00e \
> -usbdevice tablet \
> -vga qxl \
> -boot menu=on \
> -show-cursor
>
> ---
>
> After the OS install and unpacking the AMD drivers, and then killing the
> VM, I modified the script to read -vga none instead of -vga qxl.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Konstantin Weber <konstantin-weber at gmx.de
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> first time posting on a mailinglist, so I hope this works out.
>>
>>
>> A couple of days ago I had a simmilar issue with an amd gpu and windows
>> 8.1. Maybe my notes could be helpful.
>>
>>
>> Background:
>> Hardware used:
>> Xeon E3-1246v3
>> MSI H97 Guard Pro
>> Asus R9 280 DC2T
>> 24 GB Ram (2x8 GB, 2x4 GB)
>>
>> Arch Linux with kenel 4.1.6-1
>>
>> I have a working Windows 8.1 virtual machine with gpu passthrough with
>> an asus r9 280 dc2t.
>> This one was created with a <4.0 kernel (3.18 I think), pci-stub,
>> libvirt in qemu:\\\system over a year ago and has been running mostly
>> without problems. I could update the gpu driver and the ccc without
>> problems.
>> After I recently read at aw's blog that libvirt now supports passthrough
>> in user-session, i used vfio instead of pci-stub and could use the
>> virtual machine in user mode.
>>
>>
>> Actual issue:
>> For testing purposes I then wanted to create another virtual machine,
>> which then had the issue, that after installation of the gpu driver, the
>> vm would not boot unless the gpu was removed from it.
>> I used the same iso for installation, that I used for the working
>> virtual machine. After some attempts I even copied the installer of the
>> driver from one vm to the other, but it did not work.
>>
>>
>> Some of the steps I tried were:
>> - Installation of Catalyst 15.7.1 gave a bluescreen with
>> "system_thread_exception_not_handled (atikmdag.sys)".
>> - Attempted installation of the driver over the device manager resulted
>> in an immediate restart without installing the driver.
>> - Installation of the driver over the device manager in safe mode
>> worked, but a restart without safe mode resultet in permanent restarts
>> until the vm was forced shutdown.
>> - Copying the installed files (not the installer) from the windows/...
>> directories from the working one to the other one let me choose the
>> driver in the device manager, but also resulted in permanent restarts
>> until the gpu was removed from the vm.
>> - Starting the virtual machine over the command line without
>> virt-manager, installing the driver over device manager and rebooting
>> worked once and then resulted in restarts.
>>
>> I tried for some days a couple of combinations of the above and some
>> suggestions I found through google, but nothing helped.
>>
>>
>> What finally did help was this:
>>
>> Start a fresh installation of windows 8.1 in qemu without libvirt. It
>> contained only the minimum needed to start (cpu, ram ...; ovmf image;
>> installation iso; virtual disk; qxl vga; gpu for passthrough with audio).
>> During installation I disabled the windows setting for loading new
>> drivers. After the installation I didn't restart, update or change any
>> setting. The gpu had only the microsoft basic driver with a code 10 and
>> did not show anything.
>> I downloaded the 15.7.1 driver from amd, extracted it and stopped the
>> installation.
>> I opened the settings for resolution and disabled the output on the qxl
>> gpu, which left me with no output.
>> After that I killed and restarted the virtual machine, so the output was
>> only on the r9 280 and installed the driver manually over the device
>> manager. This worked fine and I had no bluescreen or restarts.
>> After the installation I was able to reboot the virtual machine without
>> problems and install the ccc including the hdmi driver. I could also
>> enable the qxl gpu, install new drivers for it and install virtio drivers.
>>
>>
>> My qemu start script now looks like this:
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -cpu host,kvm=off -smp
>> 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 \
>> -drive
>> if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/OVMF-pure-efi.fd \
>> -drive
>>
>> if=pflash,format=raw,file=/home/MYUSERNAME/.config/libvirt/qemu/nvram/WinTest_ovmf.fd
>> \
>> -drive
>>
>> file=/media/Daten/VirtuelleMaschinen/WinTest_ovmf.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2
>> \
>> -vga qxl \
>> -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0 -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.1
>>
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