Greetings Alex, thanks for the info, I'll look into it.
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 8:04 PM > From: "Alex Williamson" <alex.william...@redhat.com> > To: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <p...@usb.ve> > Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com, "daggs" <da...@gmx.com> > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] pci passthrough of Intel igp > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:46:33 +0100 > "Patrick O'Callaghan" <p...@usb.ve> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 18:02 +0200, daggs wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I have a machine with an Intel igp of HD Graphics 610 [8086:5902]. > > > I found several discussions on the subject stating that it isn't possible > > > but all of them are several years old. > > > so I wanted to know if it is possible to pass it to a vm? > > > I'm using kernel 5.4.43, libvirt-6.6.0 and qemu-5.0.0. > > > > 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. > > For daggs, I can only say try it yourself, I don't know of any specific > reason it wouldn't work, but direct assignment of IGD is a fair bit of > luck anyway since the hardware is constantly changing and we don't > really keep up with it. You might need to play with the x-igd-gms > value on the vfio-pci device in QEMU, several people have found that > x-igd-gms=1 is necessary on some versions of hardware. Thanks, > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list vfio-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
