Seems that the system has to be running with bios Q35 UEFI. Standard bios
does not work. System is operational now.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 6:30 AM Darin Schmidt <darinschmidt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Still no luck getting the gtx 1080 to enable inside the VM. I see the
code
is being generated in the xml with the hook. But I still get error code 43.
Someone mentioned doing it with eufi bios and that worked for them. So when
I get back from work today, perhaps ill give that a try.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 6:10 AM Darin Schmidt <darinschmidt(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have gotten the system to see the card, its in device manager. The
> problem seems to be that I cannot use it in the VM because from what I have
> been finding out is that it gets and error code 43. Nvidia drivers disable
> the card if it detects that its being used in a VM. I have found some code
> to use to hook it into the xml before_vm_starts.
>
> 99_mask_kvm
> #!/usr/bin/python2
>
> import hooking
> domxml = hooking.read_domxml()
>
> hyperv = domxml.getElementsByTagName('hyperv')[0]
> smm = domxml.createElement('vendor_id')
> smm.setAttribute('state', 'on')
> smm.setAttribute('value', '1234567890ab')
> hyperv.appendChild(smm)
>
> features = domxml.getElementsByTagName('features')[0]
> kvm = domxml.createElement('kvm')
> hidden = domxml.createElement('hidden')
> hidden.setAttribute('state', 'on')
> kvm.appendChild(hidden)
> features.appendChild(kvm)
>
> hooking.write_domxml(domxml)
>
>
> I am currently reinstalling the drivers to see if this helps.
>
> kvm off and vender_id is now in the xml code that get generated when the
> VM is started. Im going off of examples Im finding online. Perhaps I just
> need to add the 10de to it instead of some generic # others are using.
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:02 AM Nisim Simsolo <nsimsolo(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Vendor ID of Nvidia is usually 10de.
>> You can locate 'vendor ID:product ID' by running lspci command, for
>> example:
>> [root@intel-vfio ~]# lspci -Dnn | grep -i nvidia
>> 0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation
>> GK104GL [Quadro K4200] [10de:11b4] (rev a1)
>> 0000:03:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 HDMI Audio
>> Controller [10de:0e0a] (rev a1)
>> [root@intel-vfio ~]#
>>
>> In this example, the vendor ID of VGA controller is 10de and the product
>> ID is 11b4
>>
>> Please bare in mind that you need to enable IOMMU, add pci-stub (prevent
>> the host driver for using GPU device) and disable the default nouveau
>> driver on the host Kernel command line.
>> to do that:
>> 1. Edit host /etc/sysconfig/grub and add the next to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX:
>>
>> - intel_iommu=on or amd_iommu=on
>> - pci-stub.ids=10de:11b4,10de:0e0a
>> - rdblacklist=nouveau
>>
>> 2. Regenerate the boot loader configuration using grub2-mkconfig command:
>> # grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg
>> 3. Reboot the host.
>> 4. Verify configuration:
>> [root@intel-vfio ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
>> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64
>> root=/dev/mapper/vg0-lv_root ro crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=vg0/lv_root
>> rd.lvm.lv=vg0/lv_swap rhgb quiet pci-stub.ids=10de:11b4,10de:0e0a
>> intel_iommu=on rdblacklist=nouveau LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> [root@intel-vfio ~]#
>>
>>
>> After running this, you should be able to passthrough GPU to VM.
>>
>> BTW, why are you using engine-config and not doing it from oVirt UI or
>> using virsh edit command?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 1:52 AM Darin Schmidt <darinschmidt(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all, im trying to figure out how to configure the custom
>>> properties to enable my NVIDIA card to work in the VM. Its my understanding
>>> that the drives dont work because it detects its in a VM......
>>>
>>> Im trying to do something like this:
>>>
>>> engine-config -s
>>>
UserDefinedVMProperties="kvmhidden=^(true|false)$;{type=vendor_id;state={^(on|off)$;value=^([0-9])$}}"
>>>
>>>
>>> But thats clearly not working. If I do this:
>>>
>>> engine-config -s
>>>
UserDefinedVMProperties="kvmhidden=^(true|false)$;vendor_id={state=^(on|off)$;value=^([0-9])$}"
>>>
>>>
>>> It works but, the options are messed up. Im not sure how to find out
>>> the correct syntax to get this to work. Would appreciate any advice.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nisim Simsolo
>> QE -Testing Engineer
>> IRC: nsimsolo
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>>
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