Re: passthrough host NIC interface to VM

[Alex]

You don't need to use libvirt AFAIK, everything can be done manually if you so prefer.

The arch wiki guide on PCI passthrough or reddit.com/r/VFIO can help you find your way.

On 3 Mar 2020, at 10:57 PM, Kent Dorfman <address@hidden> wrote:

On 3/3/20, Сергей Низовцев <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 16:49, Kent Dorfman <address@hidden>
wrote:

What qemu-system-x86_64 startup options will let me pass the PCI NIC
directly to the VM?

-device vfio-pci,host=pciid

.. but before that you should configure your host properly for iommu
and vfio. libvirt can automate this routine tasks, try it instead of
using qemu directly.

Thank you for your followup.  Is there a way to do this without
introducing libvirt?  Does qemu not have a direct PCI passtrhough
mechanism?  qemu-4.1.1