[vfio-users] Binding Nvidia to vfio prevents hardware acceleration on Skylake

2016-03-02 Thread Philip Abernethy
Ok so I got myself a hardware upgrade and wanted to give vfio another shot. The hardware: Mainboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M7 CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K Graphics: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 960 Host OS is Arch Linux, currently with unpatched standard kernel. The Z170 chipset doesn't officially support VT-d

[vfio-users] Can no longer pin CPUs with libvirt

2016-03-02 Thread Rokas Kupstys
As of recently without any change to libvirt config it started misbehaving. If i use cpu pinning ( in xml) i cant start VM any more. Error: > Unable to write to > '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/machine.slice/machine-qemu\x2dwin.scope/vcpu0/cpuset.cpus': > Permission denied Permissions on relevant dir: > %