I have Ubuntu 18.04 as the host. Using Qemu/KVM for a Windows 10 guest. C: drive is a qcow2 image. OVMF UEFI boot. I've been having an issue with ASUS UEFI choosing the wrong video card - long story, different issue; but in troubleshooting I set my ASUS UEFI to force PCIe Gen 3 instead of Auto. This did not solve the problem. So I set it back to Auto.
Ever since doing this I have no longer been able to boot in to Windows. The VM always comes up in Automatic Repair mode. If I try to run a repair, it fails. Nothing else has changed, so I figured something with the VM must have been corrupted.
So I'm trying to install a NEW Windows 10 VM. For now I'm leaving everything default and just installing from an ISO and using TianoCore UEFI. This is now failing as well. It gets through the Cortana questions and says it's moving on to some "Important Setup" but here is where things go awry - the next screen is the original Welcome screen from Cortana asking for keyboard layout again. It's just stuck in a loop here.
So now my original Windows install doesn't boot. I can't install a fresh install of Windows 10 ... what could possibly have been screwed up?
FYI, I am configured for PCI Passthrough and was successfully passing through an NVIDIA 1080Ti to the VM. This can't be related to the issue though, since a fresh install now goes in to a loop as well?
Note that if I install using BIOS that the Windows 10 install goes fine. It's only if I install using OVMF TianoCore UEFI that it fails. However, it worked fine for quite some time; until I did the test with setting PCIe mode Gen 3 then back to Auto on the host UEFI (Asus Zenith Extreme with Threadripper 16-core proc and 128G RAM).
Anyone seen anything similar? Any ideas where to start?
Thanks.
Ever since doing this I have no longer been able to boot in to Windows. The VM always comes up in Automatic Repair mode. If I try to run a repair, it fails. Nothing else has changed, so I figured something with the VM must have been corrupted.
So I'm trying to install a NEW Windows 10 VM. For now I'm leaving everything default and just installing from an ISO and using TianoCore UEFI. This is now failing as well. It gets through the Cortana questions and says it's moving on to some "Important Setup" but here is where things go awry - the next screen is the original Welcome screen from Cortana asking for keyboard layout again. It's just stuck in a loop here.
So now my original Windows install doesn't boot. I can't install a fresh install of Windows 10 ... what could possibly have been screwed up?
FYI, I am configured for PCI Passthrough and was successfully passing through an NVIDIA 1080Ti to the VM. This can't be related to the issue though, since a fresh install now goes in to a loop as well?
Note that if I install using BIOS that the Windows 10 install goes fine. It's only if I install using OVMF TianoCore UEFI that it fails. However, it worked fine for quite some time; until I did the test with setting PCIe mode Gen 3 then back to Auto on the host UEFI (Asus Zenith Extreme with Threadripper 16-core proc and 128G RAM).
Anyone seen anything similar? Any ideas where to start?
Thanks.