KVM PCI passthrough IRQ limitations

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Hello,

I am attempting to make use of '-pcidevice' on my system, but have run into some problems. First, my setup:

Fedora 10 x86_64 host system
2.6.28.1-19.fc10 kernel from Koji
KVM-84
Debian Lenny guest VM

I am attempting to passthrough a Xilinx FPGA device to the Lenny guest. No driver for this device exists on the host.

% /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 ./vdisk.img -m 384 -pcidevice host=02:00.0 init_assigned_device: Registering real physical device 02:00.0 (bus=2 dev=0 func=0)
get_real_device: region 0 size 1024 start 0xe1200000 type 512 resource_fd 12
Failed to assign irq for "02:00.0": Input/output error
Perhaps you are assigning a device that shares an IRQ with another device?

When the Fedora host was first booted, the Xilinx was assigned IRQ 10, which appeared to be unshared:

02:00.0 Memory controller: Xilinx Corporation Device 0007
        Subsystem: Xilinx Corporation Device 0007
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
        Memory at e1200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

However, after executing qemu-system-x86_64, lspci showed the Xilinx assigned to IRQ 16, which is shared with a SATA controller:

02:00.0 Memory controller: Xilinx Corporation Device 0007
        Subsystem: Xilinx Corporation Device 0007
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
        Memory at e1200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Device Serial Number XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX

Moving the card to a different slot gave the same results.

My hope is to eventually have two Xilinx FPGA cards in the same system, and to passthrough each card to its own VM instance. Would such a scheme be possible? Is there a way around the IRQ assignment failure?

Thanks,

Jason
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