[vfio-users] Awful boot times, current OVMF to blame?

[Martin Schrodt]

Hey John,

thanks for the advice, I saw that the old version of OVMF fixed it for
you after I replied, and will try to use it when I come around (next
weekend)

Cheers!

On 08/28/2017 05:31 PM, John Koelndorfer wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I wrote previously that using a specific version of OVMF fixed the issue
> for me. My almost-complete VFIO setup is documented at
> https://github.com/jkoelndorfer/local-tools/tree/master/workstation/vfio, including
> an RPM containing the OVMF revision I'm using now. Try that one and see
> if it works. The CPU exposed to the VM in my configuration is the
> equivalent of "host-passthrough" in libvirt as far as I know.
> 
> If that old version of OVMF doesn't work, take a look at the other bits
> of my config and see what the differences might be. I've got a pretty
> good experience with the launch script I have right now.
> 
> That reminds me, I need to get around to a kernel bisection one of these
> days.
>