Hi,
does your host support the passthrough (I/O MMU virtualization: i.e.
VT-d for Intel, AMD-Vi for AMD CPUs)? Is it enabled in BIOS and kernel?
On 2016-11-16 08:38, Tahir Masood wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>
>
> I am trying to add a Broadcom Physical NIC to a virtual Machine as
> Passthrough device. However I am getting following error.
>
>
>
> Error starting domain: unsupported configuration: host doesn't support
> passthrough of host PCI devices
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 88, in
> cb_wrapper
>
> callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 124, in tmpcb
>
> callback(*args, **kwargs)
>
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 83,
> in newfn
>
> ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
>
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1404, in
> startup
>
> self._backend.create()
>
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1035, in create
>
> if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
>
> libvirtError: unsupported configuration: host doesn't support
> passthrough of host PCI devices
>
>
>
> libvirt allows to appply the changes to the VM xml configurations, but
> gives error the moment I try to start the VM.
>
> I have tried following approaches.
>
>
>
> 1- Open Virt-Manager, Shutdown VM, edit VM , add PCI hardware device ,
> locate BroadCom NIC, apply changes. Then I restart the VM.
>
> 2- Also tried to add following XML tags one by one using 'virsh edit',
> but got same error.
>
>
>
> Tag -1
>
> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
>
> <source>
>
> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
>
> </source>
>
> </hostdev>
>
>
>
> Tag -2
>
> <interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'>
>
> <source>
>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00'
> function='0x1'/>
>
> </source>
>
> </interface>
>
>
>
> The detail of the BroadCOm NIC are as follows.
>
> 02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
>
>
>
>
>
> What would it take to add this NIC to VM as Passthrough Device?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Tahir Masood
>
> Senior Engineer,
>
> xFlow Research Inc.
>
> +92-300-9779473
>
> tahir.masood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tahir.masood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> www.xflowresearch.com <http://www.xflowresearch.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
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