[vfio-users] qemu 2.6.0 doesn't allow Win7 OVMF boot from DVD

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 06/20/16 00:19, Anthony debeus wrote:
> Perhaps not strictly a vfio problem, but FYI, as it is likely to affect
> people on this list doing GPU passthrough.
> 
> I had a driver install problem in Windows 7 and had to boot my
> installation media to fix it, but found I could not.  Reverting from
> qemu 2.6.0 (under Arch) to qemu 2.5.1. fixes the problem.
> 
> 2.6.0 only allows Win7 with SeaBios + cirrus.
> 
> There's a bug filed under Ubuntu:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1585008?comments=all

"This is a dupe of LP#1581936 and LP#1591724. The issue is fixed by
upstream QEMU commit 94ef4f337fb6."