Wow, great! No problem, if you've got any other questions feel free to contact me again.
On Aug 16, 2016 1:16 PM, "gerson moises" <grsnmoi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks,Ben J, it was possible to setup everythig and passthrough GTX 570 > in just 1 day and those problems vanished. > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 8/15/16, Ben J <btpprogr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] GTX 570 EFI support > To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.william...@redhat.com> > Cc: "gerson moises" <grsnmoi...@yahoo.com>, vfio-users@redhat.com > Date: Monday, August 15, 2016, 1:50 PM > > I am currently > using a GTX 580 for passthrough. The 500 series does not > support UEFI as far as I'm aware. If I remember > correctly, that error occured when the card was already > claimed by something. My card is very finnicky about getting > claimed so I usually need to 'reboot' the card after > freeing it from the NVIDIA driver or a VM. I just do this by > suspending but I'm sure there's another way to power > cycle just the card. You definitely need to use one of the > older tutorials, any one that uses EFI won't work for > you. > > I would try launching the card with PCI stub and then > pulling the ROM, maybe vfio-pci is somehow claiming the > card. My current procedure is to launch both GTX 580's > with PCI stub initially and then bind one to vfio and the > other to NVIDIA for my host OS. Not sure how to help with > your specific problem but I can share more about my setup if > it would help. I'm using a Win 7 guest so that could be > a difference. > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at > 12:36 PM, Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> > wrote: > On > Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:50:03 +0000 (UTC) > > gerson moises <grsnmoi...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I followed the guide on this link : http://vfio.blogspot.my/2014/ > 08/does-my-graphics-card-rom- support-efi.html to check > if my graphics card ROM supports EFI > > > But I get the following error : > > > > > > "cat: rom: Input/output error" > > > > > > What could be the reason ? > > > I am using vfio-pci and already put the option vfio-pci > ids =boot , I followed all the steps and when I reboot I see > the GTX 570 is unused. > > > Or does anyone know whether GTX 570 supports EFI ? > > > > > > I tried this because whenever I start the VM with a > windows 10 guest I have a BSOD loop after installing NVIDIA > driver. With Ubuntu guest I also get an error, it says > "glx" not found and I cannot successfully login in > the guest OS, I just get a blank screen with the Ubuntu > logo, although with the Nouveau driver I have no problem and > the VM OS actually can see the GTX Graphics card. The > problems only begin after installing the NVIDIA drivers. So > this is a troubleshooting attempt. > > > > > > Any idea ? > > > > > > It's pretty well guaranteed that a 500 series GeForce > does not support > > UEFI. AFAIK, there's not a terribly high success rate > with these cards > > either. The 600 series are generally what I consider the > bottom end of > > working reasonably well. Otherwise there's not really > enough > > information in your report to provide any specific advice. > Thanks, > > > > Alex > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > > vfio-users mailing list > > vfio-users@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/ > mailman/listinfo/vfio-users > > >
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