[vfio-users] R9 290 Passthrough not working on Linux

guidugli at gmail.com guidugli at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 14:43:07 UTC 2017


Thank you for your reply.
I have a Core i7 4770 running on ASROCK Fatal1ty Z87 Professional, 32GB
RAM, Sapphire Tri-X R9 290.
I tried using OVMF too and had same results, unfortunately. Windows
works fine but Linux do not.


On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 03:15 +0100, Tomáš M. wrote:
> What is your HW?
> I would recommend trying the whole thing on Arch Linux using this htt
> ps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
> 
> Although I don't have experience with OVMF, using seabios happily
> with RX480.
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 8:59 PM,  <guidugli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > For quite some time I have been able to do a pass-through of R9 290
> > to
> > 
> > Windows VMs using KVM. The problem is that I tried to use Linux and
> > it
> > 
> > does not work. Tried Fedora and Ubuntu and both did not work. Funny
> > 
> > thing is that Ubuntu startup/shutdown screens show on the secondary
> > 
> > monitor but not the system itself.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I tried using i440FX and Q35, same results. Used the same
> > configuration
> > 
> > I use for my working Windows VMs.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I had opened a but few months ago but no answer so far.
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+b
> > ug/1
> > 
> > 633777
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I just wonder if someone was able to bypass this problem or has
> > some
> > 
> > suggestion.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Carlos
> > 
> > 
> > 
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