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Re: passthrough host NIC interface to VM
From: |
Kent Dorfman |
Subject: |
Re: passthrough host NIC interface to VM |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Mar 2020 09:57:04 -0500 |
On 3/3/20, Сергей Низовцев <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 16:49, Kent Dorfman <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> What qemu-system-x86_64 startup options will let me pass the PCI NIC
>> directly to the VM?
>
> -device vfio-pci,host=pciid
>
> .. but before that you should configure your host properly for iommu
> and vfio. libvirt can automate this routine tasks, try it instead of
> using qemu directly.
Thank you for your followup. Is there a way to do this without
introducing libvirt? Does qemu not have a direct PCI passtrhough
mechanism? qemu-4.1.1