[vfio-users] Trying to get VFIO working on my laptop

[Alex Williamson]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Okky Hendriansyah <okky.htf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Daurnimator <quae at daurnimator.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>
> Hi Daurnimator,
>
>
>> I'm trying to get windows working inside QEMU on my laptop with
>> passthrough of my gfx card.
>> However, I seem to be running getting the infamous code 43 from the
>> nvidia driver.
>> Screenshot of device manager: https://i.imgur.com/YA2baaW.png
>> The solutions I've found online so far don't seem to help, so I'm
>> posting to this list.
>>
>
> In general Quadro cards passthrough are officially supported by NVIDIA
> (except for some specific older ones, Alex could help confirm this). So
> probably some steps outlined on web articles, which are mostly passing
> through GeForce cards, behaves differently on Quadro. For instance,
> although GeForce cards are not officially supported, GeForce cards could be
> passed through as primary display adapter for the guest, unlike Quadro
> cards which are only supported as secondary display adapter for the guest.
>

AFAIK, NVIDIA only supports assignment of discrete Quadro cards, model
K2000 or higher.  This is an Optimus Quadro model K1100, so we're on our
own to figure out if there's any way to make it work.
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