[vfio-users] Host can't wake from suspend after running a passthrough VM

[Nicolas Roy-Renaud]

I've had this problem for a while, and I just figured it was due to VFIO 
GPU passthroughs being generally incompatible with S3. I currently just 
set a sleep inhibitor while my VM is running so I don't accidentally put 
the host into sleep while it's still running. I've been trying to add it 
to my libvirt hooks, but libvirt seems to detect when a process is 
forking and hold on to the subprocess regardless, so no luck there.

- Nicolas


On 10/21/16 20:09, Ryan A Young wrote:
> I will give 4.8 a try, thanks for the heads up!
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:40:24 -0500
>> Ryan A Young <rayoung at utexas.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> After I start and then shutdown my passthrough VM and then suspend the
>>> host, it won't wake from suspend anymore. As in, once in S3, pressing
>>> the power button simply has no effect. I have to press the reset
>>> button (and sometimes that doesn't work either) and restart the
>>> machine. Suspend works correctly if I never start the VM.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this issue before?
>>>
>>> Hardware: i5-4690, ASRock H97, GTX 1060.
>>> Software: Fedora 24, kernel 4.7.7, qemu 2.6.2, GTX 1060 video and
>>> audio taken by vfio-pci, OVMF VM with Windows 10 managed by libvirt.
>> Try a v4.8 kernel, I was doing some testing on a Fedora v4.7 system and
>> seeing a number of strange things after running a VM with device
>> assignment.  Disabling KVM resolved the problem, but is clearly not a
>> useful workaround.  I wasn't able to reproduce on v4.8, which makes me
>> think KVM in v4.7 might have some issues.
>
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