[vfio-users] More questions

[ALG Bass]

Thnx.
Using this configuration (one monitor, VNC for guest), would you plug both
video card outputs into the monitor?
And can you isolate certain USB ports on your motherboard for use on the
guest, in case I want to use a set of USB headphones?

I appreciate all the help.


On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Afair - no. But we got reports about Fury X lacking UEFI support on some
> vendors, then there is still a possibility that the 3xx series may not have
> it too.
> Don't worry much about it, though: you might either not need UEFI at
> all(the VGA way) or you will be able to use the ROM from another vendor's
> GPU which has the GOP for UEFI to work.
> Not a big issue anyway. I know a workaround if you may stumble in that
> problem.
> On Sep 6, 2015 12:49 AM, "ALG Bass" <olorin12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has the R9 380 been reported to have UEFI problems?
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Answer to all your questions is yes. VNC is the most used way to do that
>>> kind of thing, aw covered that in his blog.
>>> The problem i see - R9 380 may have UEFI problems and reset problems.
>>> On Sep 5, 2015 11:08 PM, "ALG Bass" <olorin12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a few more questions.
>>>> First off, this is the hardware for the computer I'm going to build
>>>> next month:
>>>>
>>>> AMD FX 8350
>>>> ASUS M5A99FX R2.0 motherboard
>>>> 16 gb Kingston HyperX Fury RAM (1866 ghz)
>>>> MSI GTX 750 ti Twin Frozr (It's the card I have in my current PC -
>>>> going to use it as host gpu)
>>>> MSI R9 380 4G Gaming (guest gpu)
>>>> Antec 750W power supply
>>>> various other irrelevant hardware
>>>>
>>>> I looked through the lists of compatible and working hardware, and it
>>>> all looks good to me. Anyone notice any foreseeable problems?
>>>>
>>>> I have a monitor that has DVI and HDMI inputs, with no speakers or
>>>> audio outputs. I have external speakers.
>>>>
>>>> I watched this video:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1LdFkRzIs
>>>> and he's got his Windows guest running in a window on his only monitor,
>>>> on the Linux desktop. How does he do that? Is he running a VNC? Is it
>>>> difficult to set up?
>>>> Also, if I was able to do that, would I be able to get audio working on
>>>> both the guest and host through one set of speakers?
>>>> And if I couldn't do that, would I be able to use one of those USB
>>>> sound cards and pass it through for guest audio?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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