[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Requesting Assistance from Intel Engineers on Intel Integrated Graphics (IGD) VGA Passthrough for Xen 4.0.1-RELEASE and pv-ops dom0 kernel 2.6.32.x

["Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of Singapore" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

I have barely managed to install Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) Drivers because the system is unstable and Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU keeps crashing with a BSOD after a short while. I have attached three screenshots of the Device Manager in this email. You may refer to these screenshots (JPEG images). These screenshots indicate that Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough with Xen 4.0.1-RELEASE and pv-ops dom0 kernel 2.6.32.21 is successful (albeit the system is very unstable).

I have also uninstalled an older version of Xen GPL PV drivers for Windows XP and installed gplpv_XP_0.11.0.213_debug.msi.

At the moment, the system is very unstable and Windows XP HVM domU keeps crashing with a BSOD after a short while. It also takes at least three minutes for Windows XP HVM domU to start booting after the "xm create" command is executed. Sometimes, Windows XP HVM domU may not even start after the "xm create" command is executed, so I will just have to keep rebooting.

I have tried memtest86 scan with 2 passes and the test results indicate that there are no hardware memory errors. I have also performed a bad sector scan in Windows XP HVM domU and the results are negative.

-- 
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On 09/11/2010 11:17 PM, "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of Singapore" wrote:

Dear Pasi, Intel engineers, and Xen developers,

I have just made and uploaded a video to Youtube. The length of the video is only 1 minute and 37 seconds. The video demonstrates the successful bootup of Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU/virtual machine, indicating an initial successful Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough, and followed by a BSOD shortly thereafter. The error in the BSOD is "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". Full details of the error are in the short video clip.

Please watch my Youtube video at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdD25DREx0g

At the time of this writing, there are 24 uploaded videos in my Youtube account.

http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo

Please let me know what you think after watching the short video clip.

Thank you very much.

-- 
Yours sincerely,

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering)
Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean
Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
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Mobile Phone (Starhub pre-paid): +65-8369-2618
Windows Live Messenger: teoenming-at-hotmail.com
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
ZIP: 470103
My Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders:-
http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-August/295952.html
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_f6a341d9623fda17880159b137c07335.xml
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On 09/11/2010 07:35 PM, "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of Singapore" wrote:

On 09/11/2010 06:21 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:57:26PM +0800, "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) ????????? of Singapore" wrote:
  

Dear Intel Engineers,

I am unable to get Intel integrated graphics (IGD) VGA passthrough to
work with Xen 4.0.1-rc6-pre, Xen 4.0.1-RELEASE, pv-ops dom0 kernel
2.6.32.19 and 2.6.32.21. The moment the command "xm create <Windows XP
HVM guest>" is executed, the screen immediately goes blank with the
label "NO SIGNAL". It may take anywhere from 3-10 minutes before Windows
XP Home HVM domU starts booting. The HVM guest will subsequently crash
with a BSOD.

I have posted configuration files, scripts, logs and kernel debug
messages in threads in the xen-devel mailing list in August 2010 and
September 2010.

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/index.html

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-09/index.html

Please assist.

    

A couple of questions:

- I assume the IGD is the primary graphics?
  

Yes, the IGD is the primary display adapter.

- Do you have other graphics adapters in the same machine?
  

Yes, I have NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 graphics card in the same machine.

- Can you please paste "lspci -vvv" from dom0.
  

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1003
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26
    Region 0: Memory at d3400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
    Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 4: I/O ports at e220 [size=8]
    Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
    Region 0: Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
    Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256M]
    Region 3: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=32M]
    Region 5: I/O ports at d000 [disabled] [size=128]
    Expansion ROM at d3000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel modules: nvidia

- Also paste your grub.conf for the entry you're using for Xen.
  

title Fedora (2.6.32.21-xen-enming.teo)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M
    module /vmlinuz-2.6.32.21-xen-enming.teo ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora11_host-lv_root rhgb quiet selinux=0 nomodeset
    module /initrd-2.6.32.21-xen-enming.teo.img

-- Pasi


  

Thank you very much.

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