[vfio-users] Ovmf setup

[Bradley Davis]

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 <koalinux at gmail.com>
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
> <koalinux at gmail.com> 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/ld-2.21.so \
> > > /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=virtio
> > >
> > >     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/ld-2.21.so \
> > > /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.
> > >
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