Hello Ramkumar,

Have you tried changing the -fw_cfg opt/ovmf/X-PciMmio64Mb,string=XXXXX 
parameter? Doesn't that help?

> On 20 Aug 2026, at 11:25, Ramkumar Santhanakrishnan via groups.io 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> 
> I have a question about commit ecb778d0ac62560aa172786ba19521f27bc3f650, 
> which limits the MMIO window to 1/8 of the total physical address space.
>  For a guest with 46-bit physical addressing, this gives an 8 TB MMIO window. 
> We cannot increase the guest physical address width or move to 5-level paging 
> due to compatibility constraints. With newer GPUs (up to 512 GB VRAM each), 8 
> TB may be insufficient for passthrough of 8 GPUs, mainly because each BAR 
> requires base address alignment.
>  We are evaluating increasing the MMIO window size.
> Could you share the rationale for the 1/8 limit?
> Do you see any concerns with changing it to 1/4, or making it configurable 
> from QEMU?
>  Thanks
> Ramkumar
>    




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