Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtual IOMMU + Virtio-net devices in a Windows VM doesn't work

[Peter Xu]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:13:18PM -0400, Jintack Lim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a Windows VM on top of KVM on x86, and one of virtio-net
> device in the Windows VM doesn't seem to work. I provided virtual
> IOMMU and two virtio-net devices to the VM: one bypassing the virtual
> IOMMU and the other one behind the virtual IOMMU[1]. It turned out
> that the virtio-net device behind virtual IOMMU didn't work while the
> one bypassing the virtual IOMMU worked well. In a linux VM with the
> same configuration, both of virtio-net device worked well.
> 
> I found that there is a subtle difference between virtio-net devices
> bypassing and behind virtual IOMMU in a Linux VM. The lscpu command in
> the Linux VM shows different device names for them; the first line is
> for the bypassing one, and the second line is for the one behind the
> virtual IOMMU
> 
> 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Device 1041 (rev 01)
> 
> I wonder if this difference somehow caused the problem in the Windows
> VM. I've installed the latest virtio drivers (0.1.149) from the fedora
> project [2]
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> I'm using v4.15 Linux kernel as a host, and QEMU 2.11.0.

Have you tried the latest QEMU?

Also CC Jason and Michael.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jintack
> 
> [1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VT-d
> [2] 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers.html
> 
> 

Regards,

-- 
Peter Xu