[vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

[Matthew Kramara]

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.
Thanks for the heads up.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:43 PM, francesco dicarlo <evilsephiroth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I thought OVMF  was possible from windows 8+...
>
> Am I missing something ?
>
> 2015-10-17 13:10 GMT+02:00 Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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..
>>
>> 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
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF.
>> 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. However on reboot
>> windows 7 fails to restart until I do a system restore, even if I remove
>> the PCI device from the VM using virt-manager.
>>
>> I'd love some help or just directions to any previous cases that look the
>> same.
>> Thanks, Matt
>>
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