[vfio-users] GTX 570 EFI support

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:50:03 +0000 (UTC)
gerson moises <grsnmoises at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I followed the guide on this link : http://vfio.blogspot.my/2014/08/does-my-graphics-card-rom-support-efi.html to check if my graphics card ROM supports EFI
>  But I get the following error :
> 
> "cat: rom: Input/output error"
> 
> What could be the reason ? 
> I am using vfio-pci and already put the option vfio-pci ids =boot , I followed all the steps and when I reboot I see the GTX 570 is unused. 
> Or does anyone know whether GTX 570 supports EFI ?
> 
> I tried this because whenever I start the VM with a windows 10 guest I have a BSOD loop after installing NVIDIA driver. With Ubuntu guest I also get an error, it says "glx" not found and I cannot successfully login in the guest OS, I just get a blank screen with the Ubuntu logo, although with the Nouveau driver I have no problem and the VM OS actually can see the GTX Graphics card. The problems only begin after installing the NVIDIA drivers. So this is a troubleshooting attempt.
> 
> Any idea ?


It's pretty well guaranteed that a 500 series GeForce does not support
UEFI.  AFAIK, there's not a terribly high success rate with these cards
either.  The 600 series are generally what I consider the bottom end of
working reasonably well.  Otherwise there's not really enough
information in your report to provide any specific advice.  Thanks,

Alex