On Thu, 2020-08-13 at 06:52 +0200, daggs wrote:
> Greetings Patrick,
> 
> > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 12:59 AM
> > From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <p...@usb.ve>
> > To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.william...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com, "daggs" <da...@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.

OK, that makes sense, thanks.

poc

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