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> 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. 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