[vfio-users] [help] 2 identical GPUs in Arch

Alex Williamson alex.williamson at redhat.com
Sun Feb 21 16:10:28 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Garland Key <david.garland.key at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Alex,
>
> I consider myself an intermediate power user. I know enough to understand
> what the line that you provided does, but not enough to write a solution of
> my own. I inserted the line that you provided above in
> /modprobe.d/vfio.conf and it caused X to fail. I had to alt+f2 to comment
> it out, rebuilt initramfs and then reboot.
>
> It was suggested that I could do this through a systemd service in the
> arch irc channel but nobody was able to provide details other than "man
> systemd.service".  Any further pointers is greatly appreciated.
>

Why does Xorg fail and what is a systemd script supposed to do differently
to make it work?  Maybe you just need to create an xorg.conf stub with a
BusID to specify the remaining card for the host.
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