Libvirt NVME support

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Mon Nov 9 16:44:22 UTC 2020


On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 16:38:11 +0000, Suraj Kasi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We wanted to check if it’s possible to specify a disk’s target as nvme (so that the disk shows up as a nvme disk to the guest VM).
> 
> Per libvirt documentation it looks like (since Libvirt 6.0.0) we can specify the disk type as nvme and disks source as a nvme. But the documentation does not say anything about being specify the disk’s target as nvme. Is it possible to present the disk to the guest as a nvme disk, if so how?
> 

NVMe device emulation is not supported at this point. I'm not even sure
what the state of the feature in qemu upstream is.

If you have a real NVMe device, you can obviously use PCI device
assignment with it to pass it to the guest os.




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