vbios flag

[SpaceCowBoy]

Hello. how can I use a custom vbios with proxmox?

I tried
hostpci0: 01:00.0,pcie=1,x-vga=on,romfile=/root/bios/vbios.rom

However the card does not show up in device manager when I add the romfile part.

thanks!

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

hostpci0: 01:00.0,pcie=1,x-vga=on,romfile=/root/bios/vbios.rom

That's because the hostpci option is a Proxmox one and does not understand the romfile property currently, from the man page/docs:

-hostpci[n] [host=]<HOSTPCIID[;HOSTPCIID2...]> [,pcie=<1|0>] [,rombar=<1|0>] [,x-vga=<1|0>]

You could omit the hostpci0 option and use "args" instead. With "args" you can pass arbitrary options to KVM/QEMU, use something like:

args: -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,....,rombar=0,romfile=/root/bios/vbios.rom

Note that this command above is not complete adapt as needed. You also need to use OVMF and that rombar option may be also 1, this depends on the device.

It would maybe make sense to add a romfile property to hostpci.[/quote]

 

[spirit]

Hi,
have send a patch to pve-devel mailing list this weekend.
Just wait a little bit.

(or you can take my patch builded here:
http://odisoweb1.odiso.net/qemu-server_4.0-103_amd64.deb)

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,
have send a patch to pve-devel mailing list this weekend.
Just wait a little bit.

(or you can take my patch builded here:
http://odisoweb1.odiso.net/qemu-server_4.0-103_amd64.deb)

Ah yes, saw it now. That's great!