[vfio-users] Ovmf setup

[José Ramón Muñoz Pekkarinen]

	Hi,

	Actually my idea is to upgrade that machine in the following months as I 
still don't feel there has been time enough to "mature" win10, but it should 
be great to have it working though, to see if it's more reliable than the 
seabios setup.

	Thanks!

	José.

On Friday 28 August 2015 13:06:05 Jon Panozzo wrote:
> Hi Jose!
> 
> Can’t say for certain (maybe someone else with Win 7 + OVMF can comment),
> but I was under the impression that OVMF works best when you use a UEFI
> capable guest (such as Windows 8 or 10).  You’ll also get better
> performance out of a more modern guest OS.  Just my 2 cents…
> 
> - Jon
> 
> > On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:04 PM, José Ramón Muñoz Pekkarinen 
<koalinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 	Hi,
> > 	
> > 	I have a setup unreliably working using seabios, and I tried to create a
> > 
> > new setup using ovmf. For this second setup I created a fresh installation
> > of win7 on UEFI, that is showing correctly through vnc using the
> > following launch command:
> > 
> > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib64/ld-2.21.so \
> > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vga std
> > -cpu host -smp 4,cores=4,threads=1 -m 4096 \
> > 
> >        -L /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/share/qemu \
> >        -netdev user,id=user.0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=user.0 \
> >        -usb -usbdevice tablet -k fi \
> >        -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-
> > 
> > x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd \
> > 
> >        -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-
> > 
> > x64/Windows_ovmf_vars_x64.fd \
> > 
> >        -cdrom virtio-win-0.1.109.iso \
> >        -smb /home/kandalf/Juegos \
> >        -drive
> >        file=ovmf-windows.img,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,if=virtio
> > 	
> > 	When I change it to do the vga passthrough, the vga doesn't initialize.
> > 
> > The command is the following:
> > 
> > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib64/ld-2.21.so \
> > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vga none
> > -cpu host -smp 4,cores=4,threads=1 -m 6144 \
> > 
> >        -L /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/share/qemu \
> >        -device ioh3420,multifunction=on,id=pcie.0 \
> >        -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,x-
> > 
> > vga=on,addr=1c.0,multifunction=on,bus=pcie.0 \
> > 
> >        -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.1,addr=1c.1,bus=pcie.0 \
> >        -netdev user,id=user.0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=user.0 \
> >        -usb -usbdevice host:03f0:134a -usbdevice host:03f0:0024 -usbdevice
> > 
> > host:0079:0006 \
> > 
> >        -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-
> > 
> > x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd \
> > 
> >        -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-
> > 
> > x64/Windows_ovmf_vars_x64.fd \
> > 
> >        -drive
> > 
> > file=/dev/koalita/koalitavm,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,if=virtio
> > 
> > 	In this case, too, some errors about trying to close the usb comes up.
> > 
> > These commands are quite similar to the one used in my seabios setup. Any
> > ideas why this can be failing?
> > 
> > 	Thanks!
> > 	
> > 	José.
> > 
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