Virtual LibreELEC

Hi, I see with happiness on the virtual section (Virtual – LibreELEC) that KVM is supported. I am trying to create a VM from the ova, but when running the build, I get "Failed to start Xorg, is you GPU supported".

Here are my steps:

1. Download LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.ova

2. Extract the LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.vmdk

3. Convert the vmdk to qcow2

4. Create a new VM, attache the LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.qcow2 and boot.

5. At this stage if I try and install or run live, I get "Failed to start Xorg, is you GPU supported"

What am I doing wrong?

Kind regards.

Hi chewitt, thanks for replying, although it saddened me to read it

I was running LibreELEC on ESXi VMware VM with GPU passthough for the past 1.5 years for my main lounge TV, and was such a great experience. I have now moved my setup over to KVM (much more flexibility), and am trying to replicate the experience, with the same GPU passed through to my main lounge TV, which I use for live TV, Movies, etc. Im sure its possible, just need s bit of a fiddle. Just need help with which bits to fiddle with though.

Would love to talk to the guy who added the 'KVM' label to the virtual download and get a bit more insight about how to get this working.

Unraid has a 'built' in LibreELEC which is easy to get up and running, but it is a very old version.

Kind regards.

Hi aptalca, thanks for your reply. I must be doing something wrong, as I have tried this before with the same results, so I just tried it again, below is the procedure:

1. Download LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.img.gz

2. Extract LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.img

3. On KVM, create a new VM, attach LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.img image

4. Passthrough my Nvidia Quadro 2000, video and sound

5. Start the VM:

a. Nothing is displayed on the external TV

b. On the KVM console, I can see LibreELEC booting, but then get "Failed to start Xorg, is you GPU supported"

6. I also tried removing the Display Spice component, but still nothing on the external TV

I have also manually built a Linux 18.04 with Kodi, Nivida dirvers, and this is working on the same monitor, but really like LibreELEC.

Can you see anything I am doing wrong? Is there a guide anywhere please?

Kind regards.

I got it working in the end on KVM, but it certainly was not straight forward. I tried every possible scenario, nothing worked (nothing was ever displayed on my external TV), but in Unraid, the default LibreELEC worked straight away, although it is a very old version and the file is called 'LibreELEC-unRAID.x86_64-7.0.1.img (Specific to Unraid?).

So, I copied this file to my Mac, mounted it. I also downloaded the latest 'LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.0.img', also mounted that, then copied 4 files from the 9.2 image over the top of the 7.0.1 image:

Files copied:

KERNEL

KERNEL.md5

SYSTEM

SYSTEM.md5

Replacing the ones already there ion the old 7.0.1 image.

I also edited the 'syslinux.cfg' file to:

DEFAULT live

LABEL live
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=0806-3443 installer tty vga=current

I then used this image to create the VM, BUT at first boot I left the KVM screen stuff there to complete the install. Once installed I removed 'EVERYTHING' to do with KVM screen / console, and passed the Nividia Quadro 2000 through, and finally I have a fully working up-to-date LibreELEC on KVM.

I also see the virtual download page has been updated to "Virtual machine image for KVM (just with NVIDA GPU passthrough) and VMWare."

It would be great if there was a quick 'how to' get this working with KVM, as I was not able to.

Thanks.

Thanks CvH, I would really appreciate you looking at this.

Just looking at this again....

I am trying to get any LibreELEC working, virtual and generic, with KVM and Nvidia GT 1030. I can get it working with Kodi on screen working fine, BUT... the sound acts very strange. after a few seconds I get a repeating audio (the GUI click sound), it gets stuck and repeats very fast until I reboot, after reboot I get the same issue.

I am using Fedora 31.

I have tried:

1. UEFI with BIOS

2. UEFI with i440 FX

3. Using OS as CentOS

4. Using OS as Debian

All give the same result, repeating audio.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

Sure:

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#                 LibreELEC                  #
#            https://libreelec.tv            #
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LibreELEC (official): 9.2.1 (Generic.x86_64)
LibreELEC:~ # dmesg | grep nvidia
[    2.642518] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    2.655120] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
[    2.657195] nvidia 0000:04:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[    3.786937] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  430.50  Thu Sep  5 22:39:50 CDT 2019
LibreELEC:~ # dmesg | grep NVidia
[    3.119711] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.4/0000:05:00.0/sound/card0/input6
[    3.119780] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.4/0000:05:00.0/sound/card0/input7
LibreELEC:~ # 

Hi, sorry about that, see attached.

I found the answer, in case anyone else has this weird Audio issue:

Create file as root:

nano /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf

Then add:

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

Save, close, restart.