<html><head></head><body lang="en-GB" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Actually with OVMF (rather than legacy BIOS and VGA) this should "just" work, assuming the card reset is working properly . It is not for most AMD cards, but for nVidia it should. The small complication here is that some guest OS-es do not allow straightforward installation on OVMF (eg Windows 7 and some Linux distributions, from my experience)</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">B.</div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Ivan Dimitrov</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, 7 November 2016 09:34</div><div><b>To: </b>matt.jk3</div><div><b>Cc: </b>vfio-users@redhat.com</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [vfio-users] AMD and NVIDIA cards for QEMU PCI passthrough</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It might work but in my experience the device release from the VM is very iffy. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Also most of the guides I have checked recommend to blacklist the guest VGA from the host. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So practically speaking you can not use the guest card. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>With Best Regards,<br>Ivan Dimitrov<br></div></div></div></div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2016 at 16:34, matt.jk3 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.jk3@gmail.com" target="_blank">matt.jk3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello<br> <br> I'm preparing to setup my first Linux system running a VM with near native performance.<br> My CPU doesn't have an integrated GPU so I bought AMD for use with the host system and I'd like to use NVIDIA card on the guest. My question is: can I use NVIDIA on the "host" when I'm not running the VM?<br> NVIDIA is my main card and I'd prefer if AMD took over only when I'm passing the other to the VM.<br> <br> Best Regards<br> Matt<br> <br> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> vfio-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com">vfio-users@redhat.com</a><br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/vfio-users</a><br> </blockquote></div><br></div> <br></div></body></html>