On Jan 17, 2016 16:10, "Stewart Adam" <<a href="mailto:maillist@diffingo.com">maillist@diffingo.com</a>> wrote: > > On 2016-01-17 1:27 PM, Eric Griffith wrote: >> >> On Jan 17, 2016 13:15, "Stewart Adam" <<a href="mailto:maillist@diffingo.com">maillist@diffingo.com</a> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:maillist@diffingo.com">maillist@diffingo.com</a>>> wrote: >> > >> > On 2016-01-07 11:30 AM, Eric Griffith wrote: >> >> >> >> My problem is.. The Win7 (and Win8.1) guests are perfectly fine and stable >> >> until I try to install the amd crimson drivers. Then Windows BSODs, yelling >> >> about an unhandled exception. If I unpack the install and install things >> >> piecemeal, then I can install the HDMI audio driver, and everything else >> >> okay...except for the display driver. Installing the display driver causes >> >> the BSOD. >> > >> > How are you booting the guest (e.g. manually executing QEMU, or manually >> created libvirt XML or virt-manager+libvirt)? >> > >> >> Virt-manager+libvirt >> >> > I had a very similar symptom on my guest, in the end it was the guest's >> machine flag "vmport=off" that virt-manager had added that resulted in the >> hang/BSOD upon installation of the driver. >> >> I tried removing the vmport=off flag but still BSOD'ed :( >> >> > After attempting a driver install, does the guest boot correctly but hang >> when attempting to show the login screen (i.e. when the 3D driver initializes)? >> >> Sometimes yes, other times itd just do the boot as if I had never tried to >> install the driver. > > > Sounds like the same issue I was experiencing... Have you also added a ioh3420 device edited your configuration so that the GPU is attached to it instead the default PCI/PCIE buses? If you're not sure, please attach the output of "virsh dumpxml your-vm-name". I did not do that, I just passed through the card and the card's audio. Are there any available instructions on how to do so? Also I appreciate the pointer, Stewart :)