Nvidia Quadro P400 not working on Ubuntu server via GPU/PCIe passthrough
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Apparently this seem to be an bigger issue than thought or am I wrong thinking that?
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@olivierlambert said in Nvidia Quadro P400 not working on Ubuntu server via GPU/PCIe passthrough:
Maybe a better approach would be to modify Nvidia drivers to change or remove the check. After all, it should be only a kind of
grepon the wordXen
And obviously, this would be also against the EULA.
I've found this but have not had time to play: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
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So the most advanced discussion within Xen about it, is here: https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/xen/devel/439501
Nothing happened since sadly, but it might be a start. Also, hiding Xen will probably have a lot of consequences regarding performances (no PV drivers and so on)
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@olivierlambert hmmm seems something, but why can this so easily be accomplished with Proxmox and even ESXi (Which I thought would be a pain considering the age of the P400). So if I for example would buy an nvidia K4000 I would be able to succesfully passthrough the GPU to Plex? (I don't know if you have done that)
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Because… they are totally different projects? ESXi got thousand engineers working on it. KVM model is different and less isolated than Xen and ESXi, so you can make important modifications in it more easily.
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@olivierlambert Yeah that they are different projects is obvious, but my question was more like 'what makes it so hard to do this in Xen?'
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- True Type-1 hypervisor (like ESXi, unlike KVM) makes it more isolated but harder to do things in general
- It's as hard in ESXi, but resources on the hypervisor are 2 or 3 order of magnitude higher than for the Xen project.
Obviously, we are working hard here at Vates to get more people directly involved in the Xen project. But it takes time and a vast amount of money to reach our target
Anyway, I'll try to see what I can do with our resources. The main issue for me now on this feature: it's mainly for non-pro usage, so no company will finance that. -
@olivierlambert said in Nvidia Quadro P400 not working on Ubuntu server via GPU/PCIe passthrough:
- True Type-1 hypervisor (like ESXi, unlike KVM) makes it more isolated but harder to do things in general
- It's as hard in ESXi, but resources on the hypervisor are 2 or 3 order of magnitude higher than for the Xen project.
Obviously, we are working hard here at Vates to get more people directly involved in the Xen project. But it takes time and a vast amount of money to reach our target
Anyway, I'll try to see what I can do with our resources. The main issue for me now on this feature: it's mainly for non-pro usage, so no company will finance that.I certainly appreciate the challange, and I wish I had something to offer to help development wise.
Perhaps a more "pro" use case could be from the standpoint of nested VM with the likes of HyperV? -
I think I never heard of any company/industry requiring the possibility to hide the hypervisor for now (doesn't mean it doesn't exists, though).
It's all a matter of priorities and limited resources sadly… That's why taking the problem from the other angle (ie drivers that doesn't check it) might be a correct solution.
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Well I am also looking into a Quadro K2000/M2000 or something similar, I believe those would passthrough without any issues? -
I think we should go back to the main accountable company about all of this: it's Nvidia
They probably have the answer on how they decided to artificially segment their product line via their drivers 
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@olivierlambert that is a certainty. But no amount of bribery or blackmail seems to make them want to let us in on the secret...
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@warriorcookie Well I am at the point on almost giving up on the P400 and just go with an M2000. I currently have an AMD Radeon Pro WX2100 laying around but no luck with this one Plex...
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Currently I can get a M4000 for a decent price, I think this one should be able to passthrough in XCP-NG? But I have no idea if this will actually passthrough, has anyone reading this experience with passing through an Quadro M2xxx or M4xxx card to XCP-NG?
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You should ask on Nvidia forum, I assume it will be a safe bet
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I will take the bet, an M4000 for 200 euro's is pretty cheap as I have seen M2000 for higher prices.
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Well just tested the Quadro M4000 also no luck on this one... Although this GPU is alot more powerfull than the P400 so I will keep in anyway....
EDIT: Well complained to quickly, apparently a host reboot resolved it and I see the GPU now in the Plex VM
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@thefrisianclause Hello, not sure if I missed something from the above thread, but did any of you try to turn off the CPUID "hypervisor present" bit on an Intel-based XCP-ng host VM using this technique from the thread referenced by @warriorcookie above? https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/4643/nested-virtualization-of-windows-hyper-v-on-xcp-ng/26
It is the equivalent of the ESXi Hypervisor.CPUID.v0="FALSE" vmx file configuration tweak. It configures the XCP-ng VM to, in effect, lie to the guest OS by saying, "you are not running on a hypervisor."
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@xcp-ng-justgreat Does this also work for Linux? As I currently run Linux with this and not Windows. But I will have a look into it
Also I am running this on an AMD Ryzen 3800XT.
EDIT: I also had the Quadro M4000 running this afternoon, but had to redo the VM. Now I cant get it to work anymore and did the same tasks. Sometimes Xen is like a 'lady' sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
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@thefrisianclause Yes, it should work for a Linux guest too. It alters the VM's apparent CPUID as presented to the guest OS--whatever that happens to be. I'm not one-hundred percent sure about AMD, but try the same technique. The same bit probably has the same purpose on an AMD CPU.
