[vfio-users] pci passthrough of Intel igp

[daggs]

Greetings Patrick,

> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 12:59 AM
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc at usb.ve>
> To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> Cc: vfio-users at redhat.com, "daggs" <daggs at gmx.com>
> Subject: Re: [vfio-users] pci passthrough of Intel igp
>
> On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 11:04 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > If this is your only GPU, it doesn't make much sense. The idea of
> > > passthrough is to let the VM control an additional GPU, not the main
> > > one.
> >
> >
> > There are plenty of people trying to assign their primary graphics
> >
> > device, it makes perfect sense for someone that doesn't intend to run a
> >
> > graphical environment on the host.  Assigning the primary GPU can be
> >
> > more challenging, but that doesn't mean it isn't done.
>
> Presumably they mustn't be running any kind of interactive environment
> on the host, unless it's via a network connection, but sure.
>
> poc
>
>

you are correct, I've failed to mention, it is a headless server.

Dagg.