[vfio-users] [Virt-Manager]Unable to install Nvidia driver (crash during installation)

[Jayme Howard]

Does the vendor ID need to be exactly 12 characters to work reliably?  I
believe I've been using nvidia43fix as mine, and had unreliable results.
 ~75% of the time my VM boots with code 43.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Alex Williamson <
alex.l.williamson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Berillions <berillions at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a big problem when i want to install the Nvidia driver on my
>> Windows 10 VM.
>> The VM's creation and installation of Windows 10 is correct. I can use it
>> without problem.
>>
>> But during the installation of Nvidia driver, I have a BSOD with this
>> error message :
>>
>> *SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED *
>> but KVM is hidden in my .xml (see pastebin)
>>
>> I give you the pastebin which have these informations :
>> - Boot kernel line
>> - How i install Win10 on the VM
>> - Graphic card
>> - Libvirt xml
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/rXsW3PyY
>>
>
> a) Add a modprobe.d entry to add the ignore_msrs options to kvm, ex:
>
> # cat /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
> options kvm ignore_msrs=1
>
> b) Hiding kvm is not enough, you also need to mask hyper-v extensions to
> avoid a code43.  Add within the <hyperv> section:
>
> <vendor_id state='on' value='0123456789ab'/>
>
> (or some other random 12-char string)
>
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