[vfio-users] Nvidia Code 43 on Fedora 24 host and Windows 10 guest.

[Dawid Osuchowski]

I've ran dd if=NV287MH.2K0 of=strip bs=1 skip=1536, put the ROM file in
/usr/share/qemu, run restorecon on it and it started working! I'm so
thankful for both of you Alex and Thomas, i've been trying to get it to
work for at least 4-5 days and you've helped me in just one day. While
we are still here, do you have any recommendations on optimizing the VM
so it runs smoothly almost as a native OS and how should i interact with
the VM? I've seen an article on
https://rokups.github.io/blog/#!pages/kvm-hid.md that made a software
KVM switch, would that be good?


On 10/05/2016 04:23 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 04:04:01 +0200
> Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/05/2016 03:46 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>> If you want to send me your ROM file, I'll compare to mine and see
>>> whether it works with my card (not sure whether it should or not given
>>> different vendors).  Thanks,  
>> This conversation from irc explains where that strip.rom file comes from.
>>
>> <tulphoon> Hello. I've extracted ROM file from my card and i would like to apply UEFI "patch" to it. How should i do it? I don't want to use nvflash directly on the card.
>> <tulphoon> My card is MSI GTX 660, and i've got the "patch" file from this thread https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=274331.0
>> <tulphoon> Basically i want to merge the two files (if that's even possible) and have single EFI compatible file in the end.
>> <tholin>   I see no mentioning of "patch" in that thread. It looks like just a .rom file. Use that rom instead of the one you dumped.
>> <tulphoon> That one doesn't qualify as rom tho.
>> <tulphoon> at least, EfiRom -d throws out error: 3001
>> <tholin>   looks like you are right, it's some metadata format
>> <tulphoon> but i don't want to nvflash it tho.
>> <tulphoon> Unless that's the last solution
>> <tholin>   the real vbios is embedded in it. It starts at byte offset 1536 and I suppose it's 128K big like most vbios.
>> <tulphoon> probably the nvflash thingy is able to strip the thign and make it work.
>> <tulphoon> the thing*
>> <tholin>   try running this on it "dd if=NV287MH.2K0 of=strip bs=1 skip=1536 count=131072"
>> <tulphoon> okay, gimme a sec.
>> <tholin>   the vbios rom-parser can parse the resultant file
>> <tulphoon> holy fuck
>> <tulphoon> you are a genius sir.
>> <tulphoon> wait.
>> <tulphoon> Okay, the rom is working and has EFI support.
>> <tulphoon> but i'm still getting Code 43 on my Win 10 VM.
>> <tulphoon> I'll investigate further tomorrow though. Huge thank you for help tholin :)
>> <tholin>   np
>>
>> Perhaps the real rom is larger than 128K? That seems unlikely.
>> At least you can recreate that stripping and get the same rom.
> Yes, it is more than 128K, mine and the one in that rar archive.  That
> could very well be the problem.  Dawid, repeat what you did above, but
> remove the count=131072 part of the dd command, which will just let it
> run to the end of the file.  Thanks Thomas, that could very well be the
> key.
>
> Alex