[vfio-users] Not binding GPU to vfio-pci

[Nick Sarnie]

Awesome, thanks for the link.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, <rudeboyjamaica at gmail.com> wrote:

> For your quick  question is there answer. I ask litle bit same in this
> thread.
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-February/msg00033.html
>
>
> 2016-02-21 17:45 GMT+01:00 Nick Sarnie <commendsarnex at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Yeah it seems you're right, the qemu command has "-device
>> vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,id=hostdev2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2", so it seems it is
>> using vfio-pci.Thanks for the information.
>>
>> One more quick question: I'm using SeaBIOS for my VM. My GPU doesn't
>> support UEFI Secure/Fast booting. Can I use a GPU like this with OVMF and
>> more importantly, is there any performance difference using OVMF over
>> SeaBios? Thanks alot,
>> sarnex
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Alex Williamson <
>> alex.williamson at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Nick Sarnie <commendsarnex at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm using legacy device assignment. My script is
>>>> stop xdm, echo "0000:01:00.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/radeon/unbind echo
>>>> "0000:01:00.1" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/radeon/unbind and then start xdm. I
>>>> use virt-manager with libvirt, and I added the gpu to the VM with PCI Host
>>>> Device under Add Hardware. Is this what you're talking about?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Somehow I doubt that both function 0 and 1 are bound to the radeon
>>> driver, but if you're not crafting your own QEMU command line or specifying
>>> a driver for the hostdev entries in your XML, then you're probably using
>>> vfio.  You can verify by looking at the libvirt log for the VM
>>> (/var/log/libvirt/qemu/$domain.log) for either vfio-pci or pci-assign
>>> devices.
>>>
>>
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