Questions tagged [iommu]
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Is passing through a GPU to KVM supported when running linux in tty mode (3 grub argument)?
I am trying to set up a KVM virtual machine and pass through my single graphics card (AMD 5700XT + aorus x570 pro) but have had no success so far. I have been collecting dmesg logs via ssh on a remote ...
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How to isolate (reserve) GPUs with identical hardware IDs via IOMMU / dracut / kernel parameters (in VoidLinux)
I'm trying to set up pci/gpu passthrough on void.
Specifically, using the vfio-pci driver to "reserve" one of the GPUs.
I have been following the procedure outlined in this void-docs PR (and ...
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Capturing Integrated Graphics Card for QEMU Virtual Machine Passthrough
I am currently trying to create a VM setup on an Ubuntu 20.04. Particularly, I was working on passing through the integrated GPU down to the guest.
When running lspci -nnk, I get the following
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On which parameters one can determine which PCI devices available on host are assignable to the KVM guests
I have the following PCI devices available on my host (centos 7):
[root@sumeet-KVM ~]# lspci -kD
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Red ...
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ACPI and AMD GPU errors while attempting to install Ubuntu or Mint
I have been trying to dual boot windows and Linux. I am facing similar problems for both Ubuntu and Mint. The attached image shows the errors that i am getting
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How can I prevent USB drivers (EHCI) from loading on specific USB controller (PCIe card)?
I'm using Debian 10.8 with Linux Kernel 4.19.0-14.
I'm trying to use IOMMU to passthrough an entire USB controller (PCI Express card), but I'm having problems. The kernel is loading the ohci_pci and ...
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Too few IOMMU groups - split?
I bought AMD RyZEN 5 2400G, Gigabyte B450M D3SH and 16GB RAM. Some elder GPU AMD Radeon HD 6XXX I took for passing through. But I was unpleasantly surprised with the IOMMU grouping.
I put the GPU in ...
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How to fix AMD-Vi: Unable to read/write to IOMMU perf counter. at boot Void Linux
I am using an amd laptop.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8) @ 2.100GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 03:00.0 Picasso
While starting void I get this message on top
AMD-Vi: Unable to read/write ...
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What is the appropiate iommu kernel parameter for Ryzen5 1600 and multiple RX580 GPU?
Reserving all the PCIe slot for RX580 prevents my PC to boot, due to such errors AMD-VI IOTLB_INV_TIMEOUT, AER: Corrected error received or kernel panic. Adding the linux parameters with iommu=soft ...
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Debian boot error: AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter
I'm booting a stable live Debian USB (with persistence) on a Windows 10 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U processor. I should add that I've tried both the official and non-free Debian versions.
The ...
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Linux, at what point a device can write to the main memory through DMA?
I am trying to figure out how and when Linux gives the permission to perform direct memory access (DMA) to the peripheral devices on PCIe. I have read how DMA is initiated in the kernel's "DMA ...
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Problem with IOMMU passthrough of i915 after Debian update
Yesterday, after six stable months I upgraded my Debian 10 box to Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 (2020-04-27). I am running a KVM hypervisor and Windows 10 Pro as a VM on that box. The Win VM uses the i915 ...
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VT-d support enabled but IOMMU groups are missing
On a Supermicro A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F Atom C3758 system I see that VT-d support is enabled in the BIOS but I can't find any IOMMU groups under Linux (Fedora 31):
$ ls /sys/kernel/iommu_groups
$
The kernel ...
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What are the implication of using iommu=force in the boot kernel options?
I have to follow a hardening procedure for a linux os, in this procedure it tels us that the kernel option must have iommu=force.
What does it do ? What could be the difference without specifying ...
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Intel CPU stepping - naming convention
I'm having trouble enabling IOMMU on Centos 8 (4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64) and I'm starting to think that my CPU doesn't support VT-d.
On the Intel ARK page for my CPU it says "yes" for VT-x and VT-...
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Can't access RAM from PCIe device
I use Intel Xeon with centos8 , kernel 4.18.
There is also an FPGA connected to CPU through PCIe.
The FPGA try to access RAM (through DMA) using physical address in RAM, but it fails in access.
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Arch Linux stuck at "Loading version 240" after modifying configs
I'm trying to get GPU passthrough to work on a VM. I've been following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FI31QDtyy4. The differences between what I did and what he did in the video was ...
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Passthrough Sonnet USB-C card to Windows guest via KVM and vfio
I am trying to passthrough a USB card to a guest, but I can't seem to make the VFIO driver stick, instead it seems that the host loads and takes over the card. I have a GPU successfully passed through,...
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Share aarch64 page tables created by Linux with SMMU [closed]
I am currently working on creating a shared virtual address space in Linux arm64 on a Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ board. In the future it should be possible to share pointers/addresses between the Cortex ...
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How do I translate between qemu-system arguments and virt-install arguments so I can unify partially working commands?
I am in the process of setting up VFIO with KVM. I have the VFIO itself working, in that the VFIO'd GPU displays the UEFI shell screen when I start the VM. I am also able to create a working Windows ...
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What are the implication of iommu=soft?
I've got new laptop at work (Lenovo A485) and there are few issues with it. It prints AMD-Vi: IOAPIC[32] not in IVRS table and kernel panic after that. So far I've figured few ways to get the system ...
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Ubuntu server 17.04 PCI-DMA out of IOMMU space. Status DRDY
I'm trying to install ubuntu server 17.04 on a system running 4 disks in a RAID 10 array. I'm getting a lot of errors, see attached.
Can somebody please tell me what is going on. Are these errors ...
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Is possible to re-add a removed iommu device?
I use pci passthrough.
Unfortunately my card is sharing the same irq of an usb controller.
I use this procedure:
Find the sharing irq, in my case return 21
lspci -s 00:05:00 -vvv
Find the irq
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Why does PCI passthrough not give my device to the guest OS?
I want to try PCI passthrough. I have passed an old capture video card to a Windows XP guest.
IOMMU is enabled;
vfio_pci is loaded
I run this command:
virsh nodedev-detach pci_0000_05_05_0
lspci ...
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