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

[Matthew Kramara]

Don't think it's that after all, it's letting me pass through the GPU
without any warnings so it might be covered by:
> On a typical Intel chipset, PCIe root ports are provided via both the
processor and the PCH (Platform Controller Hub).  The capabilities of these
root ports can be very different.  On the latest Linux kernels we have
support for exposing the isolation of the PCH root ports, even though many
of them do not have native PCIe ACS support
I'm thinking maybe my graphics card doesn't have EFI support in the rom.
I'm trying to use Alex' rom dumper to check but my rom file doesn't have
the read flag set.. It's bound to vfio-pci so I guess I'll try binding it
to pci-stub and see if I can dump the rom after that..

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Kramara <mattkramara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tried using Win8.1, same deal.
> I guess it comes down to the graphics card being on the same group as the
> root port. I guess I'll read up more on the ACS override patch.
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Windows 7 does have a valid EFI loader and seems like the setup supports
>> GOP, but the installed system doesn't support GOP so there's a black screen
>> at boot.
>> Using QXL is a temporary workaround until the driver is installed.
>> On Oct 17, 2015 6:06 PM, "Blank Field" <ihatethisfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Guys, use the "reply all" button. Otherwise the conversation is private.
>>> On Oct 17, 2015 6:03 PM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> 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>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:53 PM, A de Beus <anthony.debeus at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 17, 2015, at 6:52 AM, 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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