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I have a setup and running Proxmox VM server with a few guests already installed and tested working. I have gone back and followed the Passthrough instructions to the letter (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough). The issue is, it seems that when the guest kicks in the driver for my NIC, the host isn't releasing it. This in turn shuts off the card all together. The real pain is, in order to get the card usable again I have to bridge the reset on my MB and reset the BIOS. My hardware is:
Gigabyte H77n-WIFI Motherboard
i5-3340
Both of which support VT-D
I also tried to passthrough my video with the same results, card completely locked out until reset.
The end goal of this machine is a HTPC, not a production server for a company (hence the commercial gear). I want to passthrough 1 NIC as my WAN connection to pfSense on one VM, the next VM will be just a file storage and the third will be the HTPC with my graphics and sound passed through.
I thought of blacklisting the driver on the host, but with 2 of the same nic onboard that would disable the second that proxmox will use for the other VM's and itself. And yes I did verify that everything involved is on its own iommu group. Any other idea's?
I have a setup and running Proxmox VM server with a few guests already installed and tested working. I have gone back and followed the Passthrough instructions to the letter (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough). The issue is, it seems that when the guest kicks in the driver for my NIC, the host isn't releasing it. This in turn shuts off the card all together. The real pain is, in order to get the card usable again I have to bridge the reset on my MB and reset the BIOS. My hardware is:
Gigabyte H77n-WIFI Motherboard
i5-3340
Both of which support VT-D
I also tried to passthrough my video with the same results, card completely locked out until reset.
The end goal of this machine is a HTPC, not a production server for a company (hence the commercial gear). I want to passthrough 1 NIC as my WAN connection to pfSense on one VM, the next VM will be just a file storage and the third will be the HTPC with my graphics and sound passed through.
I thought of blacklisting the driver on the host, but with 2 of the same nic onboard that would disable the second that proxmox will use for the other VM's and itself. And yes I did verify that everything involved is on its own iommu group. Any other idea's?