[vfio-users] Guest does not boot OS with GPU passed through, stuck at TianoCore boot splash

[Stefan Seil]

I am already running on 4.5, so that should be fine. The OVMF version I 
was using was a couple of months old, so I just got a newer one from 
https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/ and pointed the respective 
XML tag to the newer OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd, but that did not change 
anything.
I guess your card is from a different manufacturer then and thus has a 
different ROM? Because if I try to use the standard ROM of my card (as 
in not explicitly passing any rom file to the VM at all), I don't get 
any output on the monitor connected to the card at all.
What exactly do you mean with "AMD cards also have the option of running 
as secondary graphics devices in many cases"?

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> My guess is the old kernel/OVMF MTRR issues, what kernel version are 
> you running?  What OVMF version are you running.  Upgrade both ;)  But 
> of course a "close enough" ROM may not really be close enough.  I find 
> that my HD7850 works pretty well w/  OVMF even w/o a UEFI compatible 
> ROM.  AMD cards also have the option of running as secondary graphics 
> devices in many cases, at least old ones like this where reset works.  
> Thanks,
>
> Alex