[vfio-users] Is windows 10 supported using intel IGD passthrough

Alex Williamson alex.l.williamson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 05:40:34 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:30 PM, Chris Anderson <chris.andersonc at yandex.com
> wrote:

> HI Alex,
>
> I am trying for legacy mode, which means that video from the VM will be
> out the HDMI port of the motherboard and the VM shall have exclusive use of
> the GPU.
>
> I have set ignore_msrs=1 but don' have videowhen using OVMF and UEFI only.
>
> The problem that I have is that to do a clean install of windows I need to
> have video enabled (which isn't possible unless you add a qxl device (ie
> add -device qxl-vga to the command line).
>
> How do I install windows without having any video enabled? OVMF doesn't
> recognise the UEFI device - do I need UEFI bios for that? I think that I am
> missing some key point.
>

Once again, legacy mode IGD assignment is not supported on OVMF, you need a
SeaBIOS guest.
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