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

[Abdulla Bubshait]

I have noticed this worked for me as well. I was booting my video card
without UEFI ROM using OVMF and the video card just does not initialize
until after the windows driver loads. And the card seemed to work fine. YMMV


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:18 PM Marcel Bieberbach <mauorrizze at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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