qemu Archives - The Passthrough POST /tag/qemu/ Your baremetal source for virtual news Sun, 30 Jun 2019 02:27:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 140179014 Explainer – Why and When Modprobe and VFIO-PCI Is Needed /explainer-modprobe-vfio-pci-needed/ /explainer-modprobe-vfio-pci-needed/#disqus_thread Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:06:56 +0000 /?p=1294 For quite some time now various guides on the internet have told us to use modprobe rules on most devices when doing PCI and VGA(GPU) pass-through. While in most use cases you will need to pre-bind your device to vfio-pci, or blacklist the kernel module beforehand, due to libvirt not wanting to dynamically re-bind with [...]

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]]> /explainer-modprobe-vfio-pci-needed/feed/ 0 1294 Howto: Libvirt Automation Using VFIO-Tools Hook Helper /simple-per-vm-libvirt-hooks-with-the-vfio-tools-hook-helper/ /simple-per-vm-libvirt-hooks-with-the-vfio-tools-hook-helper/#disqus_thread Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:04:21 +0000 /?p=997 If you've been using Libvirt for a while, you might have found yourself needing to run a command on startup or shutdown of a VM. Libvirt has a hook system which allows you to do just this, but it is fairly complicated to get to work, not to mention it isn't very modular. We've created [...]

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