[vfio-users] new video card. vm wont boot

[Roger Lawhorn]

Thank you,

I had considered this.
Is the format to put it on the command line different?

>>You need to build it as a module and not built in.
>>With it built in, the options need to be on the kernel boot line, and
>>not in the modprobe.d config files.


On 6/3/20 4:18 PM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 14:38, Roger Lawhorn <rll at twc.com> wrote:
>> ok.
>>
>> $ grep VFIO config-5.4.43-050443-generic
>> CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_VIRQFD=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_VGA=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_MMAP=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_INTX=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_IGD=y
>> CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV=m
>> CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE=m
>> # CONFIG_SAMPLE_VFIO_MDEV_MTTY is not set
>> # CONFIG_SAMPLE_VFIO_MDEV_MDPY is not set
>> # CONFIG_SAMPLE_VFIO_MDEV_MDPY_FB is not set
>> # CONFIG_SAMPLE_VFIO_MDEV_MBOCHS is not set
>>
>>
>>
>> so if it's built in, then why does it not load?
>> I am thinking that they changed how you define vfio-pci options in some way.
>> I define them in a config file in /etc/modprobe.d/ and then rebuild all
>> ramdisks.
>>