Hello folks!
While I still have not found a fix for the driver reset bug on my AMD R9 380x Nitro the simple workaround for now was switching the cards so that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 is in the first PCI-E slot instead, which seems to allow at least a flawless first boot of a VM but I am sure rebooting would create issues.
I am using Proxmox VE 7 i think:
pveversion
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_ADDRESS = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
pve-manager/7.0-13/7aa7e488 (running kernel: 5.11.22-5-pve)
Now sadly I have an even more annoying problem. After installing Windows 11 I finally did the GPU passthrough with the NVIDIA card and proceeded to install the driver.
During installation – presumably when the driver actually get initialized – the screen goes black and stays black. When rebooting the screen comes back online but goes black during the Windows boot sequence which presumably again is where the display driver is switched on.
VM 101 (win11):
cat 101.conf
bios: ovmf
boot: order=virtio1
cores: 8
cpu: host,hidden=1,flags=+pcid
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-3,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
hostpci0: 0000:05:00,pcie=1,romfile=GeForce_GTX_980_VGA_BIOS_84.04.31.00.32.bin
ide0: local:iso/virtio-win.iso,media=cdrom,size=543390K
ide2: local:iso/Win10_21H1_English_x64.iso,media=cdrom,size=5687620K
machine: pc-q35-6.0
memory: 16384
name: x99-v-win11-64bit
net0: e1000=DA:A2:90:FE:B3:9F,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: win11
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=aa0c2699-862d-47d9-ac61-d58e3ab266aa
sockets: 1
tpmstate0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-2,size=4M,version=v2.0
usb0: host=046d:c07e
usb1: host=046d:c31c
vga: none
virtio0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-0,size=4M
virtio1: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-1,size=64G
vmgenid: ffef132f-7093-49e2-a38d-2a0e29daee87
To make sure this is not some kind of Error 43 NVIDIA bullshit – which I thought was finally “fixed” by NVIDIAs decision to stop screwing customers needlessly – I cloned the Win 11 machine and put Win 10 on it. Then I passed through the AMD card. I have pretty much the same issue there only that just waiting made the screen go black. I assume however that Windows was taken the liberty to install a more fitting display driver in the background in that time – read: the AMD one…
VM 102 (win10)
cat 102.conf
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide2;virtio1
cores: 8
cpu: host,hidden=1,flags=+pcid
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-102-disk-0,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
hostpci0: 0000:03:00,pcie=1,romfile=Sapphire.R9380X.4096.151101.rom
ide0: local:iso/virtio-win.iso,media=cdrom,size=543390K
ide2: local:iso/Win10_21H1_EnglishInternational_x64.iso,media=cdrom,size=5696060K
machine: pc-q35-6.0
memory: 16384
name: x99-v-win10-64bit
net0: e1000=EA:C1:02:60:2D:BE,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: win10
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=bcdad938-d24c-419b-a392-fd6a138593c3
sockets: 1
tpmstate0: local-lvm:vm-102-disk-1,size=4M,version=v2.0
usb0: host=046d:c31c
usb1: host=046d:c07e
vga: none
virtio1: local-lvm:vm-102-disk-2,size=64G
vmgenid: b22fc67f-6447-411b-9879-b1eaa175d909
What am I missing?
I apologize if this is something stupid but I have probably made my VM configs worse now multiple times in order to “resolve” my issues…
Greetings
goldsteal
Note: the original version of this thread was posted on the proxmox forums: Screen goes black after boot screen following driver install (NVIDIA & AMD GPU passthrough) | Proxmox Support Forum
The “repost” here is meant to activate a broader audience of people who may want to help, since no one has answered on the proxmox forums yet and also a Gaming VM in PVE7 is still pretty niche at this point…