[libvirt] Upgrade and PCI Passthrough

Chris Wright chrisw at redhat.com
Wed Jun 3 04:43:37 UTC 2009


* Aaron Clausen (mightymartianca at gmail.com) wrote:
> I upgraded my Debian host to KVM 72 and libvirt 0.6.3-4 in the hopes
> of gaining use of PCI passthrough.  I suspect that the upgrade may
> have gone a bit awry, because when I attempt to enable passthrough, I
> get the following error:
> 
> /usr/bin/kvm: invalid option -- '-pcidevice'
> 
> Is the version of KVM that I installed too old or is something else going on?

It is too old.  That option was added in kvm-79, and there's still
updates to help make pci device assignment work so moving to as recent
as possible would be the right move.

thanks,
-chris




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