LXC Devnodes PCI Passthrough

deranjer

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Dec 28, 2010
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Just upgraded to Proxmox 4.0 by backing up my containers and VM's and then restoring them.. have a few questions about LXC I guess.

1) In OpenVZ I was able to do PCI "passthrough" using "devnodes" for example (vzctl set 1000 --devnodes device:rw --save) to send my PCI TV Tuner through to an OpenVZ container. I didn't see any concrete information about whether this is possible in LXC. I saw some information about using "cgroup" settings to allow this but wanted to see if anyone knew for sure if this was possible before I started changing things.

2) Looks like cgroups are also how a I set up tun/tap devices, by searching the forums it looks like users were having issues with that and needed to create a script? Is there official documentation I haven't found on this somewhere?

3) I haven't really looked into this issue much since it isn't a big deal, but for all my LXC containers (haven't looked at my VM's, but might be for them as well) I have no CPU graph or network graph, nothing showing at all, and my CPU usage meter doesn't move past 0.0% at all.

Thanks!
 
Solved part of the issue for the TV Tuner passthrough:

/etc/pve/lxc (conf files)
in the conf file:
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dvb dev/dvb none bind,create=dir,optional 0 0
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 212:* rwm
 

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