Enable Proxmox PCIe Passthrough
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Proxmox VE allows the passthrough of PCIe devices to individual virtual machines. In this blog post I will show you how you can configure it.
Grub Configuration
nano /etc/default/grub
# Example for an Intel system:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt"
# Example for an AMD system:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet amd_iommu=on iommu=pt"
Then update the grub:
update-grub
Add kernel modules
nano /etc/modules
vfio
vfio_iommu_type1
vfio_pci
vfio_virqfd
Save the file and update the initramfs:
update-initramfs -u -k all
Perform restart
init 6
Check function
cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.128-1-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt
dmesg |grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU -e AMD-Vi
[...]
[ 0.273374] DMAR: IOMMU enabled
[...]
[ 1.722014] DMAR: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
lsmod | grep vfio
vfio_pci 49152 0
vfio_virqfd 16384 1 vfio_pci
irqbypass 16384 2 vfio_pci,kvm
vfio_iommu_type1 32768 0
vfio 32768 2 vfio_iommu_type1,vfio_pci
Configuration Ethernet network card passthrough
Show PCI devices:
Identify network card:
ll /sys/class/net/eno1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 6 12:09 /sys/class/net/eno1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:09:00.0/net/eno1
lspci | grep -iE --color 'network|ethernet'
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
09:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
Add device to VM
nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/108.conf
...
hostpci0: 0000:09:00.0
# for multiple ones
hostpci0: 0000:09:00.0;0000:09:00.1
