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

[Blank Field]

If you will find out your GPU doesn't have EFI driver in the ROM, you can:
1. Update it using vendor's tools.
2. Glue some .efi driver(extracted from 6xxx series GPU's ROM) manually
using efirom from edk2.git-tools
3. Boot with QXL added, install the GPU driver and don't care about EFI
support much.
On Oct 18, 2015 7:16 AM, "Matthew Kramara" <mattkramara at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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