[vfio-users] Some questions for passthrough gpu card to windows 7 32bit vm

[Andre Richter]

IIRC windows 7 _32 bit_ does not work wit UEFI. Try he 64 bit version.

BR,
Andre

yimao <yiimao.y at gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 21. März 2017 um 09:36 Uhr:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to use PCI passthrough to give an NVIDA GPU to a windows vm
> with qemu-kvm. I have a Windows 7 64bit VM working well under Fedora
> 25 with an Nvidia GPU GTX 750Ti. But when I tried Windows 7 32bit, the
> OVMF UEFI could not load the Windows ISO.
>
> I have some questions：
> *. How can I passthrough a GPU card to windows 7 32bit system?
> *. Is OVMF UEFI firmware necessary for PCI GPU passthrough? I have
> tried with SeaBIOS, but the gpu card could not start with code 10.
> *. Does the GPU ROM must suppport UEFI?
> *. I have tried freerdp to get a remote access to the virtual machine,
> but I can't run 3D applications on it. I found nx is woring well, are
> there any better solutions in this situation?
> Any suggestions on what I might try?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yiimao yang.
>
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