<div dir="ltr">What version of the Windows 7 installer ISO do you have? I had no luck getting an old one to work, but a new one worked. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:35 PM, José Ramón Muñoz <<a href="mailto:koalinux@gmail.com" target="_blank">koalinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, Can you share any thoughts in getting the win7 + ovmf working? I still prefer to leave win10 for some months. Thanks! José. <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Friday 28 August 2015 13:27:41 Bradley Davis wrote: > Yeah, i had stability issues with Windows 7 + OVMF. I did get it working > though. I'm using Windows 10 now and do not have any real issues. The > uptime on my host is 1 Mo+ now. > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM, José Ramón Muñoz <<a href="mailto:koalinux@gmail.com">koalinux@gmail.com</a>> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Actually my idea is to upgrade that machine in the following > > > > months as I > > still don't feel there has been time enough to "mature" win10, but it > > should > > be great to have it working though, to see if it's more reliable than the > > seabios setup. > > > > Thanks! > > > > José. > > > > On Friday 28 August 2015 13:06:05 Jon Panozzo wrote: > > > Hi Jose! > > > > > > Can’t say for certain (maybe someone else with Win 7 + OVMF can > > > comment), > > > but I was under the impression that OVMF works best when you use a UEFI > > > capable guest (such as Windows 8 or 10). You’ll also get better > > > performance out of a more modern guest OS. Just my 2 cents… > > > > > > - Jon > > > > > > > On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:04 PM, José Ramón Muñoz Pekkarinen > > > > <<a href="mailto:koalinux@gmail.com">koalinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a setup unreliably working using seabios, and I tried to > > > > create a > > > > > > new setup using ovmf. For this second setup I created a fresh > > > > installation > > > > > > of win7 on UEFI, that is showing correctly through vnc using the > > > > following launch command: > > > > > > > > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib64/<a href="http://ld-2.21.so" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ld-2.21.so</a> \ > > > > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vga > > > > std > > > > > > -cpu host -smp 4,cores=4,threads=1 -m 4096 \ > > > > > > > > -L /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/share/qemu \ > > > > -netdev user,id=user.0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=user.0 \ > > > > -usb -usbdevice tablet -k fi \ > > > > -drive > > > > if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf- > > > > > > x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd \ > > > > > > > > -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf- > > > > > > > > x64/Windows_ovmf_vars_x64.fd \ > > > > > > > > -cdrom virtio-win-0.1.109.iso \ > > > > -smb /home/kandalf/Juegos \ > > > > -drive > > > > file=ovmf-windows.img,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,if=virti > > > > o > > > > > > > > When I change it to do the vga passthrough, the vga doesn't > > > > initialize. > > > > > > The command is the following: > > > > > > > > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib64/<a href="http://ld-2.21.so" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ld-2.21.so</a> \ > > > > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vga > > > > none > > > > > > -cpu host -smp 4,cores=4,threads=1 -m 6144 \ > > > > > > > > -L /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/usr/share/qemu \ > > > > -device ioh3420,multifunction=on,id=pcie.0 \ > > > > -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,x- > > > > > > > > vga=on,addr=1c.0,multifunction=on,bus=pcie.0 \ > > > > > > > > -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.1,addr=1c.1,bus=pcie.0 \ > > > > -netdev user,id=user.0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=user.0 \ > > > > -usb -usbdevice host:03f0:134a -usbdevice host:03f0:0024 > > > > -usbdevice > > > > > > host:0079:0006 \ > > > > > > > > -drive > > > > if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf- > > > > > > x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd \ > > > > > > > > -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf- > > > > > > > > x64/Windows_ovmf_vars_x64.fd \ > > > > > > > > -drive > > > > > > > > file=/dev/koalita/koalitavm,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,if=virtio > > > > > > > > In this case, too, some errors about trying to close the usb comes > > > > up. > > > > > > These commands are quite similar to the one used in my seabios setup. > > > > Any > > > > > > ideas why this can be failing? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > José. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > vfio-users mailing list > > > > <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com">vfio-users@redhat.com</a> > > > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users</a> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vfio-users mailing list > > <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com">vfio-users@redhat.com</a> > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users</a> _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com">vfio-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>