[vfio-users] Radeon R9 290 passthrough to Win10 guest - bsod/reboot on driver install

Tue Apr 26 19:39:07 UTC 2016

Thank you all for your input.

After much testing back and forth, eight Windows installs etc. This is 
what I've found:

Deleting <vmport state='off' /> via "sudo virsh edit my_machine" fixes 
random reboots which start appearing as soon as I pass my R9 290 GPU 
through.
It also makes Win 10 list my passed through GPU as "AMD Radeon R9 200 
series" instead of "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter", which in turn 
makes higher resolutions available.

I am able to install AMD's driver version 14.12 
(amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-with-dotnet45-win7-64bit.exe), but the newer 
Crimson drivers cause reboots.

Also a lot of my initial headaches might have come from the lack of host 
reboots. Power the Win10 guest on/off a sufficient number of times, 
suspend the host etc. and things stop working before the host reboots. 
Is this something to with power management of the vfio-pci claimed gpu?

Dos deleting <vmport state='off' /> make sense? It should result in 
<vmport state='on' /> which is the default. This vmport is some VMware 
IO port as far as I understand. Why do I need this turned on (i.e. 
remove the directive which turns it off)?

Thank you for all your inputs
/ Jonas

P.S. Had a game of Rocket League (without sound, not yet confired) with 
mouse and keyboard provided by Synergy. Worked like a dream.

On 04/19/2016 08:22 AM, Quentin Deldycke wrote:
> What do you mean by : "I have a start up script that sorts out the 
> registers and means I almost never have to hard reset".
>
> Can we have a peak at it :) ? I have sometimes bsod at boot (when the 
> windows desktop loads, all time i need to go to safe mode, uninstall, 
> reboot, reinstal)
>
> -- 
> Deldycke Quentin
>
>
> On 18 April 2016 at 15:40, Bob Dawes <xochipilli4 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:xochipilli4 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     This guy has got it exactly. Could hardly do any reboot related
>     task without at least one bsod until I used an ioh3420 root port
>     and both functions of the card together under the root port.
>
>     In the end I tracked it down to the registers and the root port
>     having different link description registers after some reboots.
>     Since they share the same physical link this could have
>     unpredictable results plus I even caught the windows drivers
>     making direct accesses to the root port registers during link
>     setup. You are stuck with certain config parameters defined by the
>     fake root port but they aren't important assuming your card can
>     handle a minimal link payload.
>
>     I have a start up script that sorts out the registers and means I
>     almost never have to hard reset, but suggest you try a simple set
>     up first as it's not great practice to setpci your registers. The
>     other thing I can recommend if you are having problems is to force
>     all your pcie cards to have safe MaxPayload parameters by adding
>     pci=pcie_bus_peer2peer to your kernel command line - as making
>     those vary between root / both card functions is a guaranteed qemu
>     boot BSOD for me. The problem we're having tends to emerge because
>     the cards can't be fully reset and so tend to go out of line.
>     Keeping them together in the client etc. really helps as does
>     having minimal non-agressive parameters for things such as MaxPayload.
>
>     For the avoidance of doubt - I can do whatever the hell I want and
>     it still works. I can even boot with fglrx and then rebind to
>     vfio. I have to bind the root port to pci-stub if I put ASPM on
>     the root port as the linux drivers start messing with stuff - but
>     even that is manageable.
>
>     It's a bit different with PCI-e2 boards vs the 100 series board I
>     have, but I suspect the principles hold regardless. Good luck!
>
>
>     On 18/04/16 01:47, Stewart Adam wrote:
>
>         I faced similar issues with my R270, in my case *entirely
>         removing* the vmport=off option (its presence alone caused
>         issues) and attaching the GPU to a ioh3420 device instead of
>         directly to the PCI bus fixed the issue:
>         https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2015-December/msg00211.html
>
>         Like many of you mention, I tried several versions from both
>         Catalyst and Crimson and all failed without those two elements
>         in my configuration. Without them, I experienced all sorts of
>         hangs and BSODs on driver installation or boot-up. It's worked
>         flawlessly, even after several guest reboots, since adding them.
>
>         This thread from January is also be relevant:
>         https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-January/msg00191.html
>
>         Regards,
>         Stewart
>
>         On 2016-04-17 6:15 PM, Ryan Flagler wrote:
>
>
>             I ran an R9 280 with only the reboot issue. I believe the
>             most important settings for me were using the i440fx
>             chipset and the uefi bios.
>
>
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