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

[Blank Field]

That's weird.
We need your hardware, lspci -v and iommu grouping. Oh, and maybe a
motorcycle.
On Oct 17, 2015 5:40 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com> wrote:

> Uhm, I was just double checking my IOMMU grouping and it looks like my
> graphics card is grouped with the root port.
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hahaha it all goes the same way.
>> Installing win8 won't help much.
>> OVMF and win7 can get along if the guest has QXL video attached. Then,
>> when you install the GPU driver, it should output video and the QXL device
>> falls offline.
>> But he has code 10, so what he will get in win8 will be similiar: a
>> working microsoft basic video adapter GPU or a code 10 GPU at boot or code
>> 10 when the driver is installed.
>> Oh, and an awesome outcome - since he has an AMD GPU and tries to use
>> UEFI GOP with it, most likely the GPU's ROM just lacks the efi driver.
>> ...
>> So, check the ROM...
>> On Oct 17, 2015 5:20 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com> 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> 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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