I took a look at the BIOS, I do not have to option to disable the Optimus option sadly. So those options may not be possible...
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Brandon Ganem <[email protected]> wrote: > I recall a BIOS option to disable Optimus in a dell laptop I had used. > Have you tried turning this off and then assigning the GPU? > > When I disabled it in the BIOS, the built in display seemed to run off the > integrated card and the external ports ran off the GPU iirc. > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Tom A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Thomas Arouge <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:01 AM >> Subject: Re: [vfio-users] Passing through an intregrated Nvidia mobile >> GPU (NVIDIA Quadro M1000M) >> To: Alex Williamson <[email protected]> >> >> >> I see... well that sucks. I wonder if anyone has brought this up to the >> Nvidia developer? Maybe I can bring this up in the dev forums and see what >> they have to say about the issue. But it does seem like I have hit a dead >> end. >> >> P.S. Just to be clear, you are saying that open source firmware like OVMF >> do not have the features that the proprietary BIOS on my laptop have for >> managing Optimus technology, right? >> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Alex Williamson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Nobody has successfully assigned an Optimus GPU to a guest yet, afaik. >>> These hybrid laptops are not simply an integrated and discrete GPU in the >>> same case with the ability to switch between them, there are proprietary >>> BIOS requirements that we cannot replicate in open source firmware to make >>> that happen and it's not clear if there's any way to make the GPU work >>> independently of those features. If you can make it work, document what >>> you've done, but don't expect that it should just work. Good luck. >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vfio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users >> >> >
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