Hi All, I apologize for the typo in my earlier mail. My first try failed and I was NOT able to get an IP address. Please clarify if there is any issue in my setup. Thanks, Vinoth. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:47 PM, VinothKumar S<vinothks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi , > > My goal is to assign pci device using Vt-d capability. I have a > Supermicro Server X8DTU-F motherboard. I verified that it had Vt-d > capability and enabled it in BIOS. Iam using KVM-86 (as I had some > compilation error in KVM-87). > > My first try was to use Ubuntu 9.04 (with kvm modules from > kvm-86) to assign my ethernet controller to guest Ubuntu 9.04. I > didn't notice any error messages when I ran qemu-system-x86_64. I was > able to see the pci device in the guest system using lspci, the > drivers were loaded but I could get an IP address. > > I then followed the steps described in "how-to" and try to run > the same setup with 2.6.30.1 (only in this kernel I can enable DMA > remapping and pci-stub driver). This time I got the following error > messages while running qemu-system-x86_64. > > sudo ./qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /home/ami/vdisk.img -m 1G -net none > -pcidevice host=01:00.1 > assign_irq: deassign: Invalid argument > assign_irq: deassign: Invalid argument > assign_irq: deassign: Invalid argument > assigned_dev_update_msix: deassign irq: Invalid argument > assigned_dev_update_msix: deassign irq: Invalid argument > fail to set MSI-X entry number for MSIX! Invalid argument > assigned_dev_update_msix_mmio: Invalid argument > > I couldn't see the pci device in the guest OS (Ubuntu ) > > I have also tried it on another Server board with similar results, i.e > even if lspci shows successfully , cant get ip address > > I would appreciate any help on this. Am I missing anything ? > > Thanks, > Vinoth. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html