[vfio-users] Code 43 when using Quadro K420 on another system.

[P. Pronk]

Hi Eddie,

Sorry, I just noticed I wrote 'comment out' but I meant to say comment
them. So no GRUB_GFXMODE should be enabled.

That works for me with a RX480, but maybe your K420 behaves different..

Kind rgds, Pim


On 13/06/17 07:58, Eddie Yen wrote:
> Hi Pim,
>
> This is what I goning to write and solved vesafb issue on this working.
>
> Not only set video=vesafb:off, but also need to set following settings
> in GRUB.
>
> GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
>
> Even that, The monitor still shows on K420 and I still got Code 43 in
> the VM.
> At least it solved BAR 3 issue.
>
> I never tried GRUB_GFXMODE yet, I'll give it a shot.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> 2017-06-13 13:47 GMT+08:00 Pim Pronk <vfio at pronk.nl
> <mailto:vfio at pronk.nl>>:
>
>
>     Could you try to edit /etd/default/grub and comment out all
>     GRUB_GFXMODE= lines and add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text".
>     Afterwards run update-grub.
>
>     This works for me on Ubuntu to passthrough my primary gpu.
>
>     With kidn rgds, Pim
>
>
>     On 13/06/17 04:02, Eddie Yen wrote:
>>     After tried video=vesafb:off, nomodeset, or nofb, still have no
>>     luck.
>>     vesafb still occupying the card......
>>
>>     Okay, need to find another way, trying to set BMC as primary VGA.
>>
>>     Anyway thanks for help, at least I had the way to solve it.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Eddie.
>>
>>     2017-06-13 9:44 GMT+08:00 Alex Williamson
>>     <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com <mailto:alex.l.williamson at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Eddie Yen
>>         <missile0407 at gmail.com <mailto:missile0407 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hi Alex, thanks for the reply!
>>
>>             I realized that primary VGA is usually controlled by
>>             BIOS, that mean can choose discrete GPU or BMC as primary
>>             VGA.
>>             Unfortunately this server doesn't include this option. So
>>             that I can't choose BMC as primary VGA, and seems like
>>             can't setup vesafb to use BMC manually.
>>
>>             I'll try video=vesafb:off to see what happen.
>>
>>             BTW, IME K2000 and higher need to be a secondary card in
>>             guest, is now still a same or it already can be primary
>>             card so that no QXL or something?
>>
>>
>>         Correct, supported configs with Quadro assign the device as
>>         secondary in the guest. 
>>
>>
>>
>>
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