On 2011-05-29 21:30, André Weidemann wrote:
Hi,
On 29.05.2011 17:22, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2010-05-28 20:49, André Weidemann wrote:
Hi,
On 28.05.2011 10:18, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-05-26 23:19, André Weidemann wrote:
On 27.05.2011 21:50, André Weidemann wrote:
On 27.05.2011 21:40, André Weidemann wrote:
> If I am not mistaken then the graphics card needs 2 bars, one with > 256MB > and one with 128K. The sound card then needs 1 bar with 16K of PCI > memory. > How big is the PCI memory with seabios? > Is there really not enough space to "squeeze" in those extra 16K?
I obviously forgot to add up the other memory that is used... 32MB go to the standard VGA card. Running qemu-kvm with "-vga none" did not work, so I left it in. And the e1000 NIC needs another 128K.
I'll see if I can get rid of the standard VGA card. I guess that should free enough memory for the sound card.
I did some more testing by starting the VM with the paramter "-vga none" and passed both the VGA card and the sound card to it. With this option the VM did not boot,
Where did it hang, ie. what IP was reported by info cpus?
I added some debug options and found out, that the VM hangs when trying to initialize the graphics card ROM. See here: http://pastebin.com/S9a8uQfU
And some additional info here:
http://pastebin.com/AC4rw8Ek (info cpus/registers) http://pastebin.com/yYkn8jL2 (info pci)
Yeah, you definitely run out of PCI memory.
Plus you may suffer from the PAM/SMRAM bug I wrote about in the wiki. Try if this hack improves the situation:
http://git.kiszka.org/?p=qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=96e600f43275310364c0310...
I applied above patch, but it did not make a difference. The VM did not boot with the parameter "-vga none".
Err, yes, of course. You also need at least legacy VGA pass-through like in this commit:
http://git.kiszka.org/?p=qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c14a1b3510d977f194b756...
But there is no guarantee that the BIOS you try to run through POST inside the guest is actually prepared for this. Maybe specifying an empty ROM helps to get the guest a bit further:
-device pci-assign,romfile=,host=...
I found the time to apply your two patches here: http://git.kiszka.org/?p=seabios.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/vga-assign After doing so, Gerds q35 bios branch prints an error message during compile. The error comes from line 33 here: http://www.kraxel.org/cgit/seabios/tree/src/dev-q35.c?h=kraxel.q35 How do I adjust the memory area here?
Just use my branch without any of Gerd's patches for the first step.
Jan