Paste your virsh XML somewhere and paste a link to that here, also when you 
reply on a mailing list, click “Reply to All” or equivalent of that, because 
you are responding directly to me and not to the list itself aswell.
> On 21 Nov 2016, at 18:52, Zachary Boley <zbole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> yes and after the dd it did work and verifies as a uefi rom, problem is no 
> matter where i put it virt-manager/qemu errors out and says it cant find it 
> (even when i verified that its there and chowned it) no idea why its not 
> finding it. Also doesnt let me put in that boot order 1 command
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Dawid Osuchowski <tulph...@openmailbox.org 
> <mailto:tulph...@openmailbox.org>> wrote:
> You can put it anywhere you want, really. It was just a suggestion, did you 
> run EfiRom -d on it though?
> 
> 
>> On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:00, Zachary Boley <zbole...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:zbole...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Its not allowing it to load, had to do rom file instead of rom bar and now 
>> its saying it cant find the file even though i've verified that its in that 
>> directory and i've even chowned it to qemu and whoever but still didnt work. 
>> I put it in the same area as the first pci device in the previous emails
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Zachary Boley <zbole...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:zbole...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> alright the dd stripe command worked, but it errors out when i put it around 
>> the area you told me to put it in somewhere in hostdev and it says its an 
>> unsupported configuration
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Dawid Osuchowski <tulph...@openmailbox.org 
>> <mailto:tulph...@openmailbox.org>> wrote:
>> Rename it to .rom, then run EfiRom -d romname.rom, if it says that the file 
>> isn't rom, then run my command. If it says it's a rom file and it has efi 
>> headers, then supply it into VM with the xml i've written in my previous 
>> mails.
>> 
>> On 11/21/2016 06:27 AM, Zachary Boley wrote:
>>> Alright i think i found it here 
>>> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=181551.0 
>>> <https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=181551.0>
>>> i unrar'd it and now its just a .310, do i need to do the dd thing you said 
>>> or just rename it to .rom
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Zachary Boley <zbole...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:zbole...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Alright i emailed MSI a support ticket to which they havent gotten back to 
>>> me with, even when they responded so quickly, seems they just kinda left it 
>>> at that
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Dawid Osuchowski <tulph...@openmailbox.org 
>>> <mailto:tulph...@openmailbox.org>> wrote:
>>> Yes, although they also call it UEFI GOP so don't be scared if you see only 
>>> that one and not UEFI ROM phrase, it's the same. When you get that, check 
>>> the file with the EfiRom tool as prescribed before, if it will say that 
>>> this isn't a proper rom file, strip it using the dd command i've pasted in 
>>> my previous emails.
>>> 
>>> On 11/20/2016 01:55 AM, Zachary Boley wrote:
>>>> I started to assume it was the uefi thing as i saw that my GPU doesnt have 
>>>> a uefi rom so I'll try to get a uefi rom, so i just need to google "MSI 
>>>> Geforce GTX 650 TI BOOST uefi rom"? and then load it how you say i should?
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Dawid Osuchowski 
>>>> <tulph...@openmailbox.org <mailto:tulph...@openmailbox.org>> wrote:
>>>> Well. If it works for you, it doesn't matter what method you have used. 
>>>> For me, ROM's from that site didn't have UEFI at all, at least it wasn't 
>>>> working with my VM, so i've went onto my card's vendor (MSI) forum and 
>>>> looked up threads where they ask                                         
>>>> for UEFI ROMs, striped it and it works like a charm now.
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/19/2016 07:15 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>>> I did read your previous email and I tried that, it didn't work for me. 
>>>>> However, it's possible that I didn't have the right rom file the first 
>>>>> time. The one I had tried loading via the XML file I had gotten by 
>>>>> googleing as you had suggested. The one I flashed I got after doing a 
>>>>> card lookup on this site https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/ 
>>>>> <https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:10 AM Dawid Osuchowski 
>>>>> <tulph...@openmailbox.org <mailto:tulph...@openmailbox.org>> wrote:
>>>>> You didn't have to flash the rom onto the card, you could just supply it 
>>>>> to the VM with the following XML, check my previous mail:
>>>>> <rom bar='on' file='/opt/GTX760.rom'/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> One thing i've forgotten to add, that the vendors tell people to flash 
>>>>> their cards with this command:
>>>>> nvflash
>>>>> 
>>>>> But you do not need to do that at all!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've ran EfiRom -d on the rom file and it said that the file is not a rom 
>>>>> file. The thing that worked for me was striping the rom and skipping some 
>>>>> of the first bytes with this command:
>>>>> 
>>>>> dd if=NV287MH.2K0 of=strip.rom bs=1 skip=1536
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then supplied it into VM and it started working properly :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/19/2016 07:02 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>>>> I just wanted to reply here because I've been fighting the exact same 
>>>>>> issue for a similiar period of time and have tried many different things 
>>>>>> (see my thread titled 'Another Nvidia code 43 error) and this thread 
>>>>>> ended up helping me resolve                                              
>>>>>>          the issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I didn't have UEFI on my card (says GPU-Z) and couldn't get the rom to 
>>>>>> load via the XML file, so I ended up flashing the UEFI rom to my GTX 760 
>>>>>> and after rebooting the host and starting the VM, it now works.  Here's 
>>>>>> my current XML file, although I plan to try and back out some of the 
>>>>>> changes I've made  http://termbin.com/99g8 <http://termbin.com/99g8>
>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:20 AM Dawid Osuchowski 
>>>>>> <tulph...@openmailbox.org <mailto:tulph...@openmailbox.org>> wrote:
>>>>>> It seems like you might have the same problem i have had with Error 43. 
>>>>>> For using passthrough with OVMF, your GPU needs to have a UEFI 
>>>>>> compatible ROM, either on the card itself or supplied to the VM using:
>>>>>> <rom bar='on' file='/opt/GTX650.rom'/>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It should be used like this
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <devices>
>>>>>>   <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
>>>>>>     <source>
>>>>>>       <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x06' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
>>>>>>     </source>
>>>>>>     <boot order='1'/>
>>>>>>     <rom bar='on' file='/opt/GTX650.rom'/>
>>>>>>   </hostdev>
>>>>>> </devices>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You need to check whether your ROM supports UEFI or not. Look up this 
>>>>>> blog post by Alex Williamson on how to do that 
>>>>>> http://vfio.blogspot.com/2014/08/does-my-graphics-card-rom-support-efi.html
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> <http://vfio.blogspot.com/2014/08/does-my-graphics-card-rom-support-efi.html>,
>>>>>>  but instead of using his utility (which for me said that the rom is 
>>>>>> UEFI compatible, while it was not) use:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> EfiRom -d
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It comes with 'edk2' package in Fedora.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you cannot extract the ROM file from your card (it was the same for 
>>>>>> me) then go into google and search for something like "(vendor e.g. MSI) 
>>>>>> GTX 650 TI BOOST uefi rom". If you cannot find anything with that, then 
>>>>>> go to a forum of the vendor of your card and ask them to supply it to 
>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>  On 11/19/2016 06:01 AM, Zachary Boley wrote:
>>>>>>> I've been at this for almost 2 weeks and im on the final steps, Error 
>>>>>>> 43 and no matter what i do its always detected as a vm. I was referred 
>>>>>>> to come here from the vfio subreddit. here are my specs/versions
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Compiled against library: libvirt 2.2.0
>>>>>>> Using library: libvirt 2.2.0
>>>>>>> Using API: QEMU 2.2.0
>>>>>>> Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.7.0
>>>>>>> Windows 10 64bit
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2x Xeon 5540s @ 2.5
>>>>>>> 48GB DDR3 ECC
>>>>>>> GTX 650 TI BOOST
>>>>>>> Fedora 24 Server 4.8.6 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> to prove IOMMU is enabled http://pastebin.com/K2i7A79j 
>>>>>>> <http://pastebin.com/K2i7A79j>
>>>>>>> VFIO-PCI details http://pastebin.com/JAbDRpkj 
>>>>>>> <http://pastebin.com/JAbDRpkj>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> passthrough VM xml: https://u.teknik.io/NOX1x.xml 
>>>>>>> <https://u.teknik.io/NOX1x.xml>
>>>>>>> libvirt conf: https://u.teknik.io/a0rWz.txt 
>>>>>>> <https://u.teknik.io/a0rWz.txt>
>>>>>>> qemu.conf: https://u.teknik.io/5Gd3Q.txt <https://u.teknik.io/5Gd3Q.txt>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> thread with my attempts 
>>>>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/5deci8/error_43_and_other_problems/
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> <https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/5deci8/error_43_and_other_problems/>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I have even used the OVMF git pure efi image  to see if there was a 
>>>>>>> difference but it doesnt seem to be helping. I have tried both attempts 
>>>>>>> on Q35 and 440fx and nothing to be gotten out of it. I'm very lost on 
>>>>>>> this and i have no clue whats going on. Not sure if this is the place 
>>>>>>> for such requests but im lost
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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