GPU Passthru to a BSD Guest

[Rei Hino]

I've been trying to passthru my RTX 3060ti to a FreeBSD guest but after installing the NVIDIA drivers on the guest it can't display the tty or anything past the bootloader 

[SimonF]

4 minutes ago, Rei Hino said:

I've been trying to passthru my RTX 3060ti to a FreeBSD guest but after installing the NVIDIA drivers on the guest it can't display the tty or anything past the bootloader 

Which bios are you using for the VM seabios or ovmf?

 

Post the vm xml.

[Rei Hino]

I'm using OVMF and the XML is:

<domain type="kvm">
  <name>freebsd13.0</name>
  <uuid>b28ab815-5983-4598-9800-7f0fe1948b57</uuid>
  <metadata>
    <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0">
      <libosinfo:os id="http://freebsd.org/freebsd/13.0"/>
    </libosinfo:libosinfo>
  </metadata>
  <memory>16777216</memory>
  <currentMemory>16777216</currentMemory>
  <vcpu current="8">8</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type arch="x86_64" machine="q35">hvm</type>
    <loader readonly="yes" type="pflash">/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader>
    <boot dev="hd"/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <vmport state="off"/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode="host-passthrough">
    <topology sockets="1" cores="8" threads="1"/>
  </cpu>
  <clock offset="utc">
    <timer name="rtc" tickpolicy="catchup"/>
    <timer name="pit" tickpolicy="delay"/>
    <timer name="hpet" present="no"/>
  </clock>
  <pm>
    <suspend-to-mem enabled="no"/>
    <suspend-to-disk enabled="no"/>
  </pm>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
    <disk type="file" device="disk">
      <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/>
      <source file="/home/rei/Documents/virt/vms/freebsd13.0"/>
      <target dev="vda" bus="virtio"/>
    </disk>
    <disk type="file" device="cdrom">
      <driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
      <source file="/home/rei/Documents/virt/iso/FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso"/>
      <target dev="sda" bus="sata"/>
      <readonly/>
    </disk>
    <controller type="usb" model="ich9-ehci1"/>
    <controller type="usb" model="ich9-uhci1">
      <master startport="0"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="usb" model="ich9-uhci2">
      <master startport="2"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="usb" model="ich9-uhci3">
      <master startport="4"/>
    </controller>
    <interface type="network">
      <source network="default"/>
      <mac address="52:54:00:71:00:a9"/>
      <model type="virtio"/>
    </interface>
    <console type="pty"/>
    <channel type="spicevmc">
      <target type="virtio" name="com.redhat.spice.0"/>
    </channel>
    <sound model="ich6"/>
    <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
      <source>
        <address domain="0" bus="12" slot="0" function="0"/>
      </source>
    </hostdev>
    <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
      <source>
        <address domain="0" bus="12" slot="0" function="1"/>
      </source>
    </hostdev>
    <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
      <source>
        <address domain="0" bus="14" slot="0" function="3"/>
      </source>
    </hostdev>
    <redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc"/>
    <redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc"/>
  </devices>
</domain>

 

Edited May 29, 2022 by Rei Hino