On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 04:43:20PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 01:13:10PM +0000, Shantur Rathore wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am doing some testing with GPU passthrough to VMs and in some cases the > > OVMF stops booting after a GPU passthrough. > > I have figured out that it's related to some state stored in NVRAM by OVMF > > and as soon as I create another VM with the same disks it starts booting up. > > > > I believe oVirt saves the NVRAM state. > > No it isn't. Or, better said, it wasn't. Storing of NVRAM is a new > feature in 4.4.5 and it will be enabled only for VMs with Secure Boot. > > So whatever you're experiencing is probably caused by something else.
Actually I hit "Send" too quickly. Are you experiencing the issue after VM reboot or even after shutdown? Because NVRAM is kept between reboots and is removed only after VM shutdown. Tomas > > > Is there a way to clear NVRAM for a VM without deleting it? > > This is not part of the feature introduced in 4.4.5. But it would make > sense to have it if we later extend the NVRAM storing to all VMs with > UEFI. So despite what I wrote above it would be worth opening a feature > request bug. > > Tomas > > > > > Regards, > > Shantur > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > > oVirt Code of Conduct: > > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > > List Archives: > > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/GJ4AQHJ6SIAT7ML526SSO7IKRTY2BHCQ/ > > > -- > Tomáš Golembiovský <tgole...@redhat.com> -- Tomáš Golembiovský <tgole...@redhat.com> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/CM6IJQI5LIVH6OPTWTRPKXITODFYCQUH/