Andreas Hartmann wrote: [...] > I tried to run qemu-system-x86_64 but got this error on startup: > > qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=06:07.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5: vfio: failed to set iommu for container: Operation not permitted > > qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=06:07.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5: vfio: failed to setup container for group 9 > > qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=06:07.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5: vfio: failed to get group 9 > ** > ERROR:qom/object.c:389:object_delete: assertion failed: (obj->ref == 0) > > > I started qemu-system-x86_64 with this option among others > > -device vfio-pci,host=06:07.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 > > after all of the devices have been added to pci-stub but 06:07.0, which was added to vfio-pci. > > > Could you please tell me, why the operation isn't permitted? I started > qemu-system-x86_64 as root. I straced the call with strace and got the following error: ... 8048 open("/usr/local/share/qemu/pxe-virtio.rom", O_RDONLY) = 14 8048 lseek(14, 0, SEEK_END) = 60416 8048 lseek(14, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 8048 read(14, "U\252v\351\217\0z\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\177\0 \0<\0\365\274\266\16"..., 60416) = 60416 8048 close(14) = 0 8048 stat("/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:06:07.0/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 8048 readlink("/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:06:07.0/iommu_group", "../../../../kernel/iommu_groups/9"..., 4096) = 33 8048 open("/dev/vfio/9", O_RDWR) = 14 8048 ioctl(14, 0x3b67, 0x7fff237d5ac0) = 0 8048 open("/dev/vfio/vfio", O_RDWR) = 15 8048 ioctl(15, 0x3b64, 0xf) = 0 8048 ioctl(15, 0x3b65, 0x1) = 1 8048 ioctl(14, 0x3b68, 0x7fff237d5ad8) = 0 8048 ioctl(15, 0x3b66, 0x1) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) ... /dev/vfio # ls -l total 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 250, 1 Jun 5 17:42 9 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 250, 0 Jun 5 17:41 vfio Kind regards, Andreas -- 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