You are probably hitting one of LP#1715700 and LP#1714331. (Upgrading from "Zesty" (17.04) to "Artful" (17.10) seems to imply a QEMU upgrade from 2.8 to 2.10.)
LP#1715700 was fixed in edk2 commit range b68c793144e8..947f3737abf6: ba1d245f1d3d OvmfPkg/CsmSupportLib: move PAM register addresses to IndustryStandard ce461ae240a7 OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim: rename Status to Segment0AllocationStatus 947f3737abf6 OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim: handle PAM1 register on Q35 correctly edk2 commits related to LP#1714331 are: 198a46d768fb MdeModulePkg/AcpiTableDxe: improve FADT.{DSDT,X_DSDT} mutual exclusion 78807f605082 MdeModulePkg/AcpiTableDxe: Not make FADT.{DSDT,X_DSDT} mutual exclusion 072060a6f81b OvmfPkg: Allow multiple add-pointer linker commands to same ACPI table at least; in this order. Regarding the change to the boot animation, that's due to commit 6e5e544f227f ("OvmfPkg: Install BGRT ACPI table", 2017-01-06). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725560 Title: OVMF UEFI firmware causes Windows 10 w/ GPU passthrough to not boot after upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edk2/+bug/1725560/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs