Just for fun... I've managed to get early Vista previews (and Longhorn) working in QEMU through the right combination of hardware. This card is just about old enough that the NVIDIA drivers don't have any "Code 43" VM protection lol
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- Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:06 am
- Forum: Retro GPU Passthrough
- Topic: How I set up Windows 7 (or Vista) GPU passthrough with libvirt/QEMU/KVM
- Replies: 34
- Views: 52130
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:39 pm
- Forum: Retro GPU Passthrough
- Topic: How I set up Windows 7 (or Vista) GPU passthrough with libvirt/QEMU/KVM
- Replies: 34
- Views: 52130
Re: How I set up Windows 7 (or Vista) GPU passthrough with libvirt/QEMU/KVM
At first, SeaBIOS + passthrough doesn't appear to work at all, which seemed to reinforce all the people who claimed it was problematic. My passed through GPU displayed no image whatsoever. Regardless, after all the frustration I had with UEFI, the handful of people saying SeaBIOS worked fine for ...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Retro GPU Passthrough
- Topic: How I set up Windows 7 (or Vista) GPU passthrough with libvirt/QEMU/KVM
- Replies: 34
- Views: 52130
Re: How I set up Windows 7 (or Vista) GPU passthrough with libvirt/QEMU/KVM
Note that the Linux method didn't work for me, but the Windows method did. Try the Windows method if this didn't work. The Linux method won't work either way because (during boot) the kernel ends up modifying the shadow VBIOS that is resident in memory (to enable kernel modesetting, etc), and ...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:58 pm
- Forum: Retro GPU Passthrough
- Topic: How I set up Windows 9x/XP GPU Passthrough with 86box
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7103
Re: How I set up Windows 9x/XP GPU Passthrough with 86box (lol)
Some examples of working setups...
Windows 98 (Ryzen 5, Quadro FX 3500, Void Linux) BIOS text-mode rendering (yep, that works!)
Windows 98 (Ryzen 5, Quadro FX 3500, Void Linux) BIOS text-mode rendering (yep, that works!)
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Retro GPU Passthrough
- Topic: How I set up Windows 9x/XP GPU Passthrough with 86box
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7103
How I set up Windows 9x/XP GPU Passthrough with 86box
Here's a fun fact: QEMU is not the only virtualizer that supports Linux's VFIO API... a few people in the 86box dev community have been working on special branch that allows PCI and PCIe devices to be passed over to an existing 86box config! It's pretty much untested, but so far Windows 98, 2000 ...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: Retro GPU Passthrough
- Topic: VirGL for old versions of Mac OS X?
- Replies: 2
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Re: VirGL for old versions of Mac OS X?
This is a bit of an tangent, but with the Windows remark... from what I remember, the softGPU project has a TODO to work on a virGL driver for Windows 9x (as both an OpenGL ICD, and Glide emulated on top). In theory it would be possible to do the same with DirectX by passing it through wined3d ...