<div dir="ltr">Damn. If it's not the EFI driver that's causing the BSOD with the drivers, I'm not sure what it is.<div>Urgghhhh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Blank Field <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com" target="_blank">ihatethisfield@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">If you will find out your GPU doesn't have EFI driver in the ROM, you can:<br> 1. Update it using vendor's tools.<br> 2. Glue some .efi driver(extracted from 6xxx series GPU's ROM) manually using efirom from edk2.git-tools<br> 3. Boot with QXL added, install the GPU driver and don't care about EFI support much.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 18, 2015 7:16 AM, "Matthew Kramara" <<a href="mailto:mattkramara@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattkramara@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Don't think it's that after all, it's letting me pass through the GPU without any warnings so it might be covered by:<br>><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> On a typical Intel chipset, PCIe root ports are provided via both the processor and the PCH (Platform Controller Hub). The capabilities of these root ports can be very different. On the latest Linux kernels we have support for exposing the isolation of the PCH root ports, even though many of them do not have native PCIe ACS support</span><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">I'm thinking maybe my graphics card doesn't have EFI support in the rom. I'm trying to use Alex' rom dumper to check but my rom file doesn't have the read flag set.. It's bound to vfio-pci so I guess I'll try binding it to pci-stub and see if I can dump the rom after that..</span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Kramara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattkramara@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattkramara@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Tried using Win8.1, same deal.<div>I guess it comes down to the graphics card being on the same group as the root port. I guess I'll read up more on the ACS override patch.</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Blank Field <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com" target="_blank">ihatethisfield@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Windows 7 does have a valid EFI loader and seems like the setup supports GOP, but the installed system doesn't support GOP so there's a black screen at boot.<br> Using QXL is a temporary workaround until the driver is installed.</p><div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 17, 2015 6:06 PM, "Blank Field" <<a href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com" target="_blank">ihatethisfield@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Guys, use the "reply all" button. Otherwise the conversation is private.</p> <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 17, 2015 6:03 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <<a href="mailto:mattkramara@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattkramara@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Kramara</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattkramara@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattkramara@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:55 PM<br>Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.<br>To: A de Beus <<a href="mailto:anthony.debeus@gmail.com" target="_blank">anthony.debeus@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Yeah, the first thing I tried was not passing in the audio component and only installing the display adapter driver since I remember those causing issues with a lot of people.. no dice though.</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:53 PM, A de Beus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthony.debeus@gmail.com" target="_blank">anthony.debeus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Win 7 works with OVMF. As for the catalyst problem, try (1) not passing the audio, just the graphics part and (2) install the driver but not the CCC. </div><div><br></div><div>Am also new to mailing lists, let me know if I'm clueless<br><br><span></span></div><div><div><div><br>On Oct 17, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Matthew Kramara <<a href="mailto:mattkramara@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattkramara@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Oh god, really? I should have a windows 8 image laying around here somewhere, wow I'm stupid.. I'll try that and see if it works.<div>Thanks for the heads up.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:43 PM, francesco dicarlo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evilsephiroth@gmail.com" target="_blank">evilsephiroth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I thought OVMF was possible from windows 8+...<div><br></div><div>Am I missing something ?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>2015-10-17 13:10 GMT+02:00 Matthew Kramara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattkramara@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattkramara@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, I've never used a mailing list before so I'm sorry if I messed up the formatting or come off as rude or incompetent or anything like that..</div><div><br></div>I've spent a few days going back and forth and retrying steps from various guides so I cant give a comprehensive description of my setup and everything I've done up to this point, but I'm running a 64bit Windows 7 VM using libvert, qemu, vfio-pci, and OMVF as per <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF</a>.<div>I've got the VM booting with the PCI device showing as a 'display adaptor' with a code 10 in the device manager, and when I try to install catalyst it currently reports the device as a hd7870 and the error code simply tells me to reboot before I can use the device. 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