Virtio cpu intensive on guest, not host

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Sanders
I'm running a Windows XP guest which is experiencing poor performance with the virtio drivers. I'm booting the guest with the modified vfio kernel and qemu from https://github.com/awilliam/qemu-vfio and https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio to use a vfio PCI device, as well as using the qemu from

Re: AMD KVM Pci Passthrough reports device busy

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Sanders
> Great, glad to hear it.  You can expect performance to get better once > we get this upstream.  Interrupts are currently getting bounced through > Qemu which adds overhead.  Eventually we'll accelerate them through KVM. > I'm still able to play static directly from the device using mplayer, so >

Re: AMD KVM Pci Passthrough reports device busy

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Sanders
Alex, This solution appears to be working for me as well on a GA-970-D3. I've been able to pass the Hauppauge 350 through to a Windows XP guest which has installed drivers and loaded it into my recording software (SageTV). I've got a few more things I want to clean up on my qemu start command bu