[vfio-users] Newbie steps

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On 11 March 2017 at 23:51, Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org> wrote:

> rd.* options only matter inside the initramfs. Once your root filesystem
> is mounted and udev is restarted, it will pick up the nvidia drivers
> at that point. You need to mask nvidia and nouveau both in the initramfs
> and once the system is booted.
>
> Change rd.blacklist to modprobe.blacklist, and regenerate your GRUB config.
>
> On 03/11/17 15:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> On 11 March 2017 at 21:26, wiwitop wiwitop wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. You should try with the real ids of your gpu. The trick didn't
>>> work with my AMD GPU, perhaps it's the same for you.
>>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "real ids". How is this different from
>> what I'm doing?
>>
>
> Specify the PCI IDs (vendor and product) as they appear in lspci -nn,
> not with the really long string (replacing with the correct product
> numbers for your card, of course):
>
> options vfio-pci ids=10de:abcd,10de:1234
>
> Then be sure to regenerate your initramfs.
>

Thanks, that's helpful. I'll take a while to digest the various
recommendations and report back when I try them out. It's midnight here so
not a good time to be poking at the system :-)

poc
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