March 10, 201412 yr •CPU xeon L3426 •Motherboard SM X8Sil-f •RAM 16GB DDR3 - KVR1333D3E9SK2 •HBA / SAS Card Supermicro SAS-AOC-SASLP-MV8 (all drives connected to this card) •Hard drives (unRAID array) 3x3TB WD Green (1 parity), 3x2TB WD Green, 350GB SG Cache •DVB-Card TBS6985 (want to run this in a hvm) •PCI-Sata SATALink 3114A - No drives connected atm. Have been pulling my hair trying to get this build to work. I bought a second plus-stick to try xen/unraid6, but i get tons of io errors resulting in a corrupt cache-disk when trying to pass the dvb-card. Sadly i dont have any logs as i had to revert back to my working unraid5/vdr build(gf/kids). I guess what i want to know is, if passing a dvb-card in xen is supposed to work with a x8sil-f. /hansh
March 11, 201412 yr Author According to my xl dmesg, my mb doesnt support interrupt remapping I have attached the full xl dmesg logfile. (XEN) Intel VT-d iommu 0 supported page sizes: 4kB. (XEN) Intel VT-d Snoop Control enabled. (XEN) Intel VT-d Dom0 DMA Passthrough not enabled. (XEN) Intel VT-d Queued Invalidation enabled. (XEN) Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping not enabled. (XEN) Intel VT-d Shared EPT tables not enabled. (XEN) I/O virtualisation enabled (XEN) - Dom0 mode: Relaxed (XEN) Interrupt remapping disabled Intel® Virtualization Technology and Intel VT-d is enabled in BIOS According to these posts, it should work ( atleast with esxi 5) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20545.0 http://www.argus-tv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=4010 The server hangs trying to passthrough the dvb-card. is it possible that it can work in esxi and not in xen? or have i missed something. xldmesg.txt
March 13, 201412 yr Author I gave xen a second try resulting in io errors and loss of disks . Had to boot back into unraid5 to get my setup back. This time i tried to pass iommu=no-intremap to xen in syslinux.cfg label Xen/unRAID OS menu default kernel /syslinux/mboot.c32 append /xen iommu=no-intremap dom0_mem=2097152 --- /bzimage --- /bzroot Then i run the commands xl pci-assignable-add 02:00.0 xl pci-assignable-list it shows that 02:00.0 is assignable (unraid doesnt have the drivers for my dvb card so i dont need to hide anything) Then its time to start the archguest, and thats when i get io errors and server crash. This is my arch.conf builder='hvm' memory = 4096 vcpus=2 name = "archguest" vif = ['mac=00:17:xx:xx:xx:xx,model=e1000,bridge=br0'] bootloader = "pygrub" pci = ['02:00.0'] usb = 1 usbdevice = "tablet" disk = ['file:/mnt/cache/guests/archguest.img,hda,w', 'file:/mnt/cache/guests/archlinux-2014.03.01-dual.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'] xen_platform_pci=1 on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' acpi = 1 device_model = 'qemu-dm' boot="cd" sdl=0 serial='pty' vnc=1 vnclisten="" vncpasswd="" This is my systemlog after the crash (look at 09:39:45). https://www.dropbox.com/s/p0kz8lgkd4fywul/systemlog.txt This is my xl dmesg after the crash https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgbp1bnu3rd0ek8/xldmesg.txt I dont know what to do from here.
March 15, 201412 yr According to these posts, it should work ( atleast with esxi 5) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20545.0 http://www.argus-tv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=4010 The server hangs trying to passthrough the dvb-card. is it possible that it can work in esxi and not in xen? or have i missed something. I haven't tested this with XEN, but I can confirm that the board and CPU will work just fine in a vt-d set-up. Been doing this with the SASLP-MV8, M1015s and TBS-Quad-DVB as well as DD-Quad..in ESXi 4.1++ and Proxmox-VE 3.1. The system has been converted to be my Workstation (added a PCIex1 GPU), so I cannot offer to test...just wanted to give you a "heads up"! Edit: OK, I did test XEN...during my Workstation tests with the board and additioanl GPU, I followed this: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=112013 ...worked like charm with a Win7-VM
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.