[vfio-users] vga pass-thru and different gfx cards.

[Marcel Bieberbach]

2015-09-10 19:47 GMT+02:00 Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com>:
>
> Hmm, none of the Asus GT 610 ROMs on techpowerup have UEFI support either
> and it doesn't look promising from the other vendors.  I was going to
> recommend the GT 635 as a cheap OEM card that has good UEFI support, but
> they no longer seem to be available on ebay.  That's really lame that the
> asus card requires an asus mb, but even more lame that it still doesn't
> include UEFI.
>
>
I'd just like to throw in that I'm regularly booting a non-UEFI card with
it's default BIOS firmware into a Windows 8.1/10 OVMF based VM. Luckily I
found compatible UEFI roms for my AMD 280X from other vendors and I've used
them during the installation, but as I ran into occasional
frequency-switching problems, I've ditched them. Of course having the
opportunity to define the rom for some boots is great, because booting with
the non-UEFI, stock rom does not only mean booting with a black screen
until the Windows login prompt appears, it also means you miss blue screens
(during Windows 10 upgrade...) and I suppose most parts of an installation.
But if you can work around that by using the virtual QXL display during
these situations, it may be worth a try.
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