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@s2156945: It might be a stupid question, but have you changed your machine type from fx440 to q35? If that is the case, the system won't boot (vice versa is the same). I’m pretty sure I’ve only done q35 vms, no fx440. Do you mean windows doesn’t boot? Does seabios need fx440? Please post the outpu...

@s2156945 Remove the following from your /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf file: options vfio-pci disable_vga=1 Then run: sudo update-initramfs -u options vfio-pci disable_vga=1 is for OVMF (UEFI) boot only! You are using SeaBIOS. What is blacklist acpi-call ? Never saw it. Leave it in the file if unsure. ...

About your post / VM configuration, could you provide some additional details? Qemu version: qemu-system-x86_64 --version woody@curtis:~$ qemu-system-x86_64 --version QEMU emulator version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4) Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers ...

@powerhouse this is the post I copied the script from
viewtopic.php?f=231&t=212692&start=460#p1486237

@bash64 what HW have you got?

Thanks all for your posts here and elsewhere. I am this guy: https://heiko-sieger.info/running-windows-10-on-linux-using-kvm-with-vga-passthrough/#comment-27 After struggling with this for a while there seem to be 4 main ways to get this going (paraphrasing / winging it) 1) Traditional Desktop - pas...