Re: PCI passthrough resource remapping

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On 29.03.2010, at 19:23, Kenni Lund wrote:

>>> 2010/1/9 Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>:
>>>> 
>>>> On 09.01.2010, at 03:45, Ryan C. Underwood wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a multifunction PCI device that I'd like to pass through to KVM.
>>>>> In order to do that, I'm reading that the PCI memory region must be
>>>>> 4K-page
>>>>> aligned and the PCI memory resources itself must also be exact multiples
>>>>> of 4K pages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have added the following on my kernel command line:
>>>>> reassign_resources reassigndev=08:09.0,08:09.1,08:09.2,08:09.3,08:09.4
>>>>> 
>>>>> But I don't know if it has any effect.  The resources are still not
>>>>> sized in 4K pages.  Also, this seems to screw up the last device.
>>>> 
>>>> I submitted a patch to qemu-kvm recently that got rid of that limitation.
>>>> Please try out if the current git head works for you.
>>>> 
>>>> Alex--
>>> 
>>> I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.32.10 with qemu-kvm  0.12.3 and I still
>>> get the following error when trying to pass through a dedicated PCI
>>> USB card:
>>> 
>>> "Unable to assign device: PCI region 0 at address 0xe9403000 has size
>>> 0x100,  which is not a multiple of 4K
>>> Error initializing device pci-assign"
>>> 
>>> Didn't the above patch make it into qemu-kvm? I don't know why, but I
>>> was under the impression that this was fixed when I upgraded to
>>> qemu-kvm 0.12.3.
>>> 
>> It's only in qemu-kvm.git. Maybe it should go into qemu-kvm-0.12.4 if there
>> is one
> 
> That would be highly appriciated...with the current USB support in
> QEMU, PCI passthrough is the only way to get USB 2.0 support. I've
> bought two dedicated PCI USB cards for this, but none of them works
> due to the above limitation.
> 
> Perhaps a developer can comment on this? Are there any plans on
> including this patch in the stable releases in the near future?

Please first try out to build the current git snapshot of qemu-kvm. If it works properly for you then I agree that we should take this into 0.12-stable.

I wrote the support for a card that still didn't work even with this patch. So having someone say it makes things work for him is definitely a must :-).


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