[vfio-users] Recommended GPU

[Dik ....]

I am also using OVMF for this VM. The problem seems intermittent and I am slightly convinced that leaving the VM running for a while until the load (not CPU / IO related) falls to normal (~zero) before shutting the VM down. Occasionally this works. Occasionally.


Quite frankly this is the last straw for me, Linux and AMD GPUs. After years of problems and against my better judgment I was advised on a forum and proceeded to buy this 290x. Never again!

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From: Janusz <januszmk6 at gmail.com>
Sent: 12 May 2016 13:35:35
To: Dik ....; vfio-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Recommended GPU

W dniu 12.05.2016 o 14:24, Dik .... pisze:

I currently have a R9 290x (Hawaii) "working" but it has issues related to this bug covered by this patch: <https://goo.gl/DI9cvH> https://goo.gl/DI9cvH


The patch was implemented in QEMU 2.4 and I'm running 2.5. While this patch does seem to help I still have problems. After I shutdown the VM I'm often unable to suspend or shutdown the host. Amongst other symptoms lspci and lshw both hang giving no output. I had none of these issues with an old 7950 I had installed before the 290x.


I've come to the conclusion that the 290x is worth more to me on eBay than in my machine. Question is would I be better off with nVidia and if so does anyone have any feedback with regard to GTX 970 and 980 cards?


Thanks in advance

If you decide to go with another gpu, better wait some time, new cards from nvidia and amd are comming soon. If you don't want to go with new cards - I am sure older one will be cheaper. With nvidia there is problem with some hyperv options, if nvidia detects it doesn't allow to boot VM. But there was some way around this.
Btw, I have R9 290 (also Hawaii) and since I started using ovmf, I never had reset problem with my gpu.
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