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

[Matthew Kramara]

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From: Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.
To: A de Beus <anthony.debeus at gmail.com>


Yeah, the first thing I tried was not passing in the audio component and
only installing the display adapter driver since I remember those causing
issues with a lot of people.. no dice though.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:53 PM, A de Beus <anthony.debeus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Win 7 works with OVMF.  As for the catalyst problem, try (1) not passing
> the audio, just the graphics part and (2) install the driver but not the
> CCC.
>
> Am also new to mailing lists, let me know if I'm clueless
>
>
> On Oct 17, 2015, at 6:52 AM, 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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