[vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

[Matthew Kramara]

Uhm, I was just double checking my IOMMU grouping and it looks like my
graphics card is grouped with the root port.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hahaha it all goes the same way.
> Installing win8 won't help much.
> OVMF and win7 can get along if the guest has QXL video attached. Then,
> when you install the GPU driver, it should output video and the QXL device
> falls offline.
> But he has code 10, so what he will get in win8 will be similiar: a
> working microsoft basic video adapter GPU or a code 10 GPU at boot or code
> 10 when the driver is installed.
> Oh, and an awesome outcome - since he has an AMD GPU and tries to use UEFI
> GOP with it, most likely the GPU's ROM just lacks the efi driver.
> ...
> So, check the ROM...
> On Oct 17, 2015 5:20 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh god, really? I should have a windows 8 image laying around here
>> somewhere, wow I'm stupid.. I'll try that and see if it works.
>> Thanks for the heads up.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:43 PM, francesco dicarlo <
>> evilsephiroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought OVMF  was possible from windows 8+...
>>>
>>> Am I missing something ?
>>>
>>> 2015-10-17 13:10 GMT+02:00 Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I've never used a mailing list before so I'm sorry if I messed up
>>>> the formatting or come off as rude or incompetent or anything like that..
>>>>
>>>> I've spent a few days going back and forth and retrying steps from
>>>> various guides so I cant give a comprehensive description of my setup and
>>>> everything I've done up to this point, but I'm running a 64bit Windows 7 VM
>>>> using libvert, qemu, vfio-pci, and OMVF as per
>>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF.
>>>> I've got the VM booting with the PCI device showing as a 'display
>>>> adaptor' with a code 10 in the device manager, and when I try to install
>>>> catalyst it currently reports the device as a hd7870 and the error code
>>>> simply tells me to reboot before I can use the device. However on reboot
>>>> windows 7 fails to restart until I do a system restore, even if I remove
>>>> the PCI device from the VM using virt-manager.
>>>>
>>>> I'd love some help or just directions to any previous cases that look
>>>> the same.
>>>> Thanks, Matt
>>>>
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