[vfio-users] Arch linux-vfio 4.3 testing

Mark Weiman mark.weiman at markzz.com
Mon Nov 23 14:47:13 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 15:32 -0500, Dan Ziemba wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 12:56 -0500, Mark Weiman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 17:19 -0500, Dan Ziemba wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 14:13 -0800, globalgorrilla at fastmail.fm
> > > wrote:
> > > > Cool. Would you consider posting just the patch inline?
> > > 
> > > Sure, patches are attached.
> > 
> > I just threw together the package and installed it and the screen
> > just
> > sits black.  My system uses an Intel iGPU.
> > 
> > Mark Weiman
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> 
> Do you use OVMF for your guest?  There is a known problem with that
> with kernels newer than 4.1.  I have been experimenting with a patch
> that is going into 4.4 and I at least got some different behavior
> where
> the guest will get to the windows booting screen and eventually start
> showing the spinner in slow motion, but never actually boots.  I
> actually left it on all night last night and it just sat there with
> vcpu0 pegged at 100% but never finished booting.
> 
> Patch I am referring to: 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg123351.html
> 
> Maybe it will at least work for someone else?  Patch against my
> PKGBUILD is attached.
> 
> Dan

Yes, I use OVMF for my guests and later I will try your patched
PKGBUILD.

Mark Weiman
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