[vfio-users] BIOS vs UEFI

[Alex Williamson]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Bob Newell <newellrp1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I think I may have made a mistake. I would like to use passthrough with an
> RX480 (which I haven't installed yet) on Debian Testing. I think I may have
> shot myself in the foot already, though. When I installed debian, I might
> have used BIOS mode. When I create a new VM in VMM, it wont let me choose
> UEFI, is that because my host OS is BIOS? Does it matter?
>

This is because you haven't installed OVMF images for QEMU to use or
they're not in a location that libvirt is looking for them. As Bronek says,
the host using BIOS or UEFI is mostly irrelevant.
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