[vfio-users] How do i get rid of the emulated gpu?

rndbit rndbit at sysret.net
Thu Jan 21 09:29:02 UTC 2016


I use emulated GPU for booting. Trick is to only use screen provided by
real GPU. Right-click desktop, go to "screen resolution", there you can
select to use only one display and which one is to be used. Then windows
will use emulated GPU for booting and switch to passed-through one after
boot.

On 2016.01.21 06:39, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 23:20 -0500, Stibnite wrote:
>> I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of the "microsoft basic
>> display adapter" in windows 10. Cpu-z and device manager both show my
>> passthrough gpu and the microsoft display adaptor side by side. I
>> seem to be using the display adaptor by default because I can't
>> change the resolution nor can i run any games beyond 3 fps. 
>>
>> With virsh edit I've tried deleting the <video> and <sound> but they
>> just reappear when i start virt-manager. 
> You need to remove both the <video> and the <graphics> entries or
> libvirt will "correct" your VM.
>
>> Sorry if this is a dumb question, none of the turotials i've found
>> detail how to go about actually getting windows to use your gpu over
>> the emulated crap. 
> This one does http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-part-4-our-first.html
>
> "Start with the machine details view in virt-manager and remove
> everything we no longer need.  That includes the CDROM devices, the
> tablet, the display, sound, serial, spice channel, video, virtio
> serial, and USB redirectors."
>
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