[vfio-users] GTX 570 EFI support

[Ben J]

Wow, great! No problem, if you've got any other questions feel free to
contact me again.

On Aug 16, 2016 1:16 PM, "gerson moises" <grsnmoises at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks,Ben J, it was possible to setup everythig and passthrough GTX 570
> in just 1 day and those problems vanished.
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 8/15/16, Ben J <btpprograms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [vfio-users] GTX 570 EFI support
>  To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
>  Cc: "gerson moises" <grsnmoises at yahoo.com>, vfio-users at redhat.com
>  Date: Monday, August 15, 2016, 1:50 PM
>
>  I am currently
>  using a GTX 580 for passthrough. The 500 series does not
>  support UEFI as far as I'm aware. If I remember
>  correctly, that error occured when the card was already
>  claimed by something. My card is very finnicky about getting
>  claimed so I usually need to 'reboot' the card after
>  freeing it from the NVIDIA driver or a VM. I just do this by
>  suspending but I'm sure there's another way to power
>  cycle just the card. You definitely need to use one of the
>  older tutorials, any one that uses EFI won't work for
>  you.
>
>  I would try launching the card with PCI stub and then
>  pulling the ROM, maybe vfio-pci is somehow claiming the
>  card. My current procedure is to launch both GTX 580's
>  with PCI stub initially and then bind one to vfio and the
>  other to NVIDIA for my host OS. Not sure how to help with
>  your specific problem but I can share more about my setup if
>  it would help. I'm using a Win 7 guest so that could be
>  a difference.
>
>  On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at
>  12:36 PM, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
>  wrote:
>  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
>
>
>
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