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

[rndbit]

Windows7 also supports UEFI so you can use OVMF firmware just fine.
People are not aware of this probably because its rare to see ISO with
UEFI support. I rebuilt ISO on my own to make win7 UEFI VM. So nope you
are not stupid :)

On 10/17/15 16:52, Matthew Kramara wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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