[vfio-users] Fwd: Passing through an intregrated Nvidia mobile GPU (NVIDIA Quadro M1000M)

[Tom A]

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From: Thomas Arouge <agentlecomputer at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Passing through an intregrated Nvidia mobile GPU
(NVIDIA Quadro M1000M)
To: Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com>


I see... well that sucks. I wonder if anyone has brought this up to the
Nvidia developer? Maybe I can bring this up in the dev forums and see what
they have to say about the issue. But it does seem like I have hit a dead
end.

P.S. Just to be clear, you are saying that open source firmware like OVMF
do not have the features that the proprietary BIOS on my laptop have for
managing Optimus technology, right?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Alex Williamson <
alex.l.williamson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nobody has successfully assigned an Optimus GPU to a guest yet, afaik.
> These hybrid laptops are not simply an integrated and discrete GPU in the
> same case with the ability to switch between them, there are proprietary
> BIOS requirements that we cannot replicate in open source firmware to make
> that happen and it's not clear if there's any way to make the GPU work
> independently of those features.  If you can make it work, document what
> you've done, but don't expect that it should just work.  Good luck.
>
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