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

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On Oct 17, 2015 6:03 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.
> To: A de Beus <anthony.debeus at gmail.com>
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> Yeah, the first thing I tried was not passing in the audio component and
> only installing the display adapter driver since I remember those causing
> issues with a lot of people.. no dice though.
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> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:53 PM, A de Beus <anthony.debeus at gmail.com>
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>> Win 7 works with OVMF.  As for the catalyst problem, try (1) not passing
>> the audio, just the graphics part and (2) install the driver but not the
>> CCC.
>>
>> Am also new to mailing lists, let me know if I'm clueless
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>> On Oct 17, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:43 PM, francesco dicarlo <
>> evilsephiroth at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I thought OVMF  was possible from windows 8+...
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>>> Am I missing something ?
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>>> 2015-10-17 13:10 GMT+02:00 Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>:
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>>>> 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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