Tried working on it a bit more. Now it complains that it cannot find IOMMU. This is an Intel Montevina chipset with DMA remapping support (VT-d). Any pointers as to why it is not finding the support? The message is coming from hw/device-assignment.c after the call to kvm_check_extension for IOMMU fails. The corresponding ioctl code in kvm-kmod lands in iommu_found(), which I believe is reporting false. I am wondering if kvm-kmod driver has support for Intel VT-d (Intel Cantiga chipsets etc) ? Can PCI pass-through work without IOMMU? Thanks, Adhyas On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Adhyas Avasthi <adhyas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a PCI WLAN controller that I wish to pass-through to the > standard linux-img VM (downloaded from qemu website). > When I try "qemu-kvm -pcidevice host=0c:00.0,name=abcd linux-0.2.img" > The VM does boot up but does not see the device. > > On the command prompt, I see the following message: > Failed to assign irq for "abcd": Operation not supported > Perhaps you are assigning a device that shares an IRQ with another device? > > I want to know what does this message exactly mean? Is PCI > pass-through having the requirement of reconfiguring the IRQ of my > host devices before I can pass them through? Can I configure qemu-kvm > somehow to emulate the IRQ (and other registers) instead of trying to > pass-through the IRQ etc? > > BTW, my box has VT and VT-d enabled in BIOS. > > -- > Adhyas > ******************************************************************** > Two types have compatible type if their types are the same. > — ANSI C Standard, 3.1.2.6. > ******************************************************************** > -- Adhyas ******************************************************************** Two types have compatible type if their types are the same. — ANSI C Standard, 3.1.2.6. ******************************************************************** -- 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