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

[Matthew Kramara]

Damn. If it's not the EFI driver that's causing the BSOD with the drivers,
I'm not sure what it is.
Urgghhhh

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you will find out your GPU doesn't have EFI driver in the ROM, you can:
> 1. Update it using vendor's tools.
> 2. Glue some .efi driver(extracted from 6xxx series GPU's ROM) manually
> using efirom from edk2.git-tools
> 3. Boot with QXL added, install the GPU driver and don't care about EFI
> support much.
> On Oct 18, 2015 7:16 AM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't think it's that after all, it's letting me pass through the GPU
>> without any warnings so it might be covered by:
>> > On a typical Intel chipset, PCIe root ports are provided via both the
>> processor and the PCH (Platform Controller Hub).  The capabilities of these
>> root ports can be very different.  On the latest Linux kernels we have
>> support for exposing the isolation of the PCH root ports, even though many
>> of them do not have native PCIe ACS support
>> I'm thinking maybe my graphics card doesn't have EFI support in the rom.
>> I'm trying to use Alex' rom dumper to check but my rom file doesn't have
>> the read flag set.. It's bound to vfio-pci so I guess I'll try binding it
>> to pci-stub and see if I can dump the rom after that..
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tried using Win8.1, same deal.
>>> I guess it comes down to the graphics card being on the same group as
>>> the root port. I guess I'll read up more on the ACS override patch.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Windows 7 does have a valid EFI loader and seems like the setup
>>>> supports GOP, but the installed system doesn't support GOP so there's a
>>>> black screen at boot.
>>>> Using QXL is a temporary workaround until the driver is installed.
>>>> On Oct 17, 2015 6:06 PM, "Blank Field" <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Guys, use the "reply all" button. Otherwise the conversation is
>>>>> private.
>>>>> On Oct 17, 2015 6:03 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> 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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