VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR in a Windows VM - workarounds?

[marcosscriven]

Just to be clear, Promox 7 is working very well for me. I'm posting here because I know there's lots of Qemu experience.

I'm finding using a particular tool called AquaSuite causes my Windows 10 VM to crash with VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR, but only after 10 minutes or so. It works fine otherwise.

AquaSuite is a client for setting up/controlling one of their USB devices that controls PC case fans/monitors temps.

When I Googled "VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR qemu", there's clear pattern of monitoring tools. Couple of examples:

1. Corsair ICUE (similar software/USB device to AquaSuite)
2. MSI Afterburner.

In the Corsair case, all the responses I found were simply to stop using it. In the MSI Afterburner, turns out there was an option in the software to stop doing the low-level stuff.

I looked in the AquaSuite software options for similar - I turned off all GPU monitoring stuff I could find, but it's still obviously doing it.

So the question is, is there something in Qemu I can do to stub a response? For instance, if the software insists on looking up some register that's not there, rather than blowing up the OS, reply with duff data? How can I even debug what's happening? There's not host-side errors at all.

 

[marcosscriven]

Further to this, the author of the program told me what it's doing:

The aquasuite is checking the attached Displays and do this via DXGI. This is a part of directx 9..12 API.

It seems they are unlikely to stop doing this, so wondering if there's anything I can do to stop Qemu blowing up here?