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title: Virtual Function I/O passthrough (vfio-pci)
description: Pass a physical device to a guest sysstem
published: true
date: 2025-04-01T18:01:48.788Z
date: 2025-04-02T16:07:41.270Z
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dateCreated: 2025-04-01T11:18:43.924Z
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## Preparation
* [Install](/deploy/install) any version of *Phyllome OS*
* [Install](/deploy/install) any version of Phyllome OS
* Make sure the GRUB has been updated after the first boot:
`# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg`
## Isolate the physical device
## Collect information on the physical device to share
* List IOMMU groups and their associated devices (script courtesy of the [Arch Linux wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Ensuring_that_the_groups_are_valid):
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[...]
```
In the above example, most devices are well isolated, at the exception to the USB controller and the HD audio controller.
In the above example, most devices are well isolated in their own IOMMU group, at the exception to the USB controller and the HD audio controller.
> In general, but not always, devices associated to a particular IOMMU group have to be passed through a guest system together
{.is-info}
In our example, Phyllome OS is installed on the Intel SSD 660P NVMe SSD. This device should not be shared with a guest system.
As Phyllome OS is installed on the Intel SSD 660P NVMe SSD, this device should not be shared with a guest system.
| IOMMU Group | Bus | Slot | Function | Device | ID |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0 | 0x00 | 0x02 | 0x0 | Intel Corporation Iris Pro Graphics 580 | 8086:193b |
| 2 | 0x00 | 0x08 | 0x0 | Intel Gaussian Mixture Model - Neural Network Accelerator | 8086:1911 |
| **3** | 0x00 | 0x14 | 0x0 | USB 3.0 xHCI Controller | 8086:a12f |
| **3** | 0x00 | 0x14 | 0x2 | Thermal Subsystem | 8086:a131 |
| 4 | 0x00 | 0x16 | 0x0 | MEI Controller | 8086:a13a |
| **11** | 0x00 | 0x1f | 0x0 | M170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller | 8086:a14e |
| **11** | 0x00 | 0x1f | 0x2 | Power Management Controller | 8086:a121 |
| **11** | 0x00 | 0x1f | 0x3 | HD Audio Controller | 8086:a170 |
| **11** | 0x00 | 0x1f | 0x4 | SMBus | 8086:a123 |
| 12 | 0x00 | 0x1f | 0x4 | Ethernet Connection I219-LM | 8086:15b7 |
| 13 | 0x02 | 0x00 | 0x0 | SD/MMC Card Reader Controller | 1217:8621 |
| 14 | 0x03 | 0x00 | 0x0 | Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 | 8086:24f3 |
| 15 | 0x3d | 0x00 | 0x0 | NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951 | 144d:a802 |
| IOMMU Group | Bus | Device | ID |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0 | 0x3d | Intel Corporation Iris Pro Graphics 580 | 8086:193b |
| 2 | | Intel Gaussian Mixture Model - Neural Network Accelerator | 8086:1911 |
| **3** | | USB 3.0 xHCI Controller | 8086:a12f |
| **3** | | Thermal Subsystem | 8086:a131 |
| 4 | | MEI Controller | 8086:a13a |
| **11** | | HM170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller | 8086:a14e |
| **11** | | Power Management Controller | 8086:a121 |
| **11** | | HD Audio Controller | 8086:a170 |
| **11** | 0x1f | SMBus | 8086:a123 |
| 12 | 0x1d | Ethernet Connection I219-LM | 8086:15b7 |
| 13 | 0x02 | SD/MMC Card Reader Controller | 1217:8621 |
| 14 | 0x03 | Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 | 8086:24f3 |
| 15 | 0x3d | NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951 | 144d:a802 |
| 16 | 0x3e | Intel Corporation SSD 660P Series | 8086:f1a8 |
Let's focus on sharing the wireless controller, which is conveniently located on a IOMMU group of its own.
```
<hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
<source>
<address domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</source>
</hostdev>
<hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
<source>
<address domain="0x0000" bus="0x02" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</source>
</hostdev>
<hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
<source>
<address domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x08" function="0x0"/>
</source>
</hostdev>
<hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
<source>
<address domain="0x0000" bus="0x3d" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</source>
</hostdev>
IOMMU Group 14:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a)
```
- Let's have a look inside the guest system that has the physical devices attached to it:
The first digits corresponds to the bus, slot and function associated to the device.
| IOMMU Group | Bus | Slot | Function | Device | ID |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 14 | 0x03 | 0x00 | 0x0 | Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 | 8086:24f3 |
In order to share such wireless card with a guest, edit the XML file associated to the domain and add the following:
```
<domain type="kvm">
[...]
<devices>
[...]
<hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes">
<source>
<address domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x14" function="0x0"/>
</source>
</hostdev>
[...]
</devices>
[...]
</domain>
```
- Start the domain and have a look inside the guest system that has the physical devices attached to it:
```
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 GPU (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
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09:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
0a:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
0b:00.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. Device 000e
0c:01.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
0d:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951 (rev 01)
09:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
```
## Add a display device
## Troubleshooting
### Low number of available vGPU instances
### Not all vGPUs are marked as active
## Resources
* Official page for vfio-mdev: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.html
* Arch Linux's *must-read entry* on Intel GVT-g: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g
* DMA-BUF Linux documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/dma-buf.html
The wireless controller has been attached to bus 9 of the virtual chipset.
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