[vfio-users] GTX 770 & GTX 960 for multiple virtual systems

[Alex Williamson]

[adding back vfio-users]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Alex Holst <a at mongers.org> wrote:

> Quoting Alex Williamson (alex.l.williamson at gmail.com):
> > The basic idea is to replace the <emulator> in your xml with a wrapper
> > script that dynamically inserts the x-vga=on option in the correct place
> > and exec's the real QEMU binary.  Of course given the newness of your
> > cards, a UEFI based VM using OVMF would eliminate the need for that
> option
> > at all.
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> I did follow your series for my most recent attempts at getting this
> working, but UEFI is never an option when I create virtual machines in
> virt-manager.
>
> I am currently running Ubuntu 15.10 -- do I need a newer libvirt to get
> UEFI support for my virtual machines?
>
> $ virsh version
> Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.16
> Using library: libvirt 1.2.16
> Using API: QEMU 1.2.16
> Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.3.0
>

That should be new enough, but virt-manager is only going to give you the
option of selecting UEFI on the customization if it can find OVMF images.
Make sure you have them installed and if it still can't find them, add it
to the nvram section of /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
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