On 30/6/19 11:07 pm, Bronek Kozicki wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, at 1:41 PM, Christoph Willing wrote: >> I have vga passthrough working with a linux guest running in qemu-3.1.0 >> on a host with two Nvidia Quadro K600 cards and the nvidia binary driver >> 430.26 installed. A dedicated keyboard & mouse is also passed through >> successfully so, in general, I'm pretty happy with the setup but ... >> >> when I use OVMF and run the guest without passthrough (just a regular >> qemu vm running on the host display) I see a grub screen to select a >> particular kernel, followed by the usual console output during bootup >> before X starts. However, when running with passthrough enabled, the >> guest vm's monitor (Samsung U28D590) shows nothing until X starts - >> there is no grub screen and no console output. >> >> Before I had the nvidia binary driver installed in the guest, I had some >> console output while booting but still no grub screen. >> >> Is there some way I can see everything including the grub screen, or is >> it normal not to see that in the guest? > > It is normal on my Quadro M5000 - these cards are not supported as primary > display with passthrough. This might be something to do with ROM, but I was > not successful trying to investigate further. To compensate for this all my > virtual machines have serial console, so I can do "virsh console" > > > B. >
Thanks for the confirmation Bronek - it's good to know I'm not the only one seeing this. I'll give it a try with serial console. chris _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list vfio-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
