[SOLVED] No USB3 after PCI passthrough USB Controller

[bero]

Hi Everyone,

I am struggling with my new Proxmox machine with PCI passthrough and USB3 support.
Since May I have a Intel NUC12DCMi9 and now I want to use the NUC as a workstation with different operating systems.
So far so good, I am able to PCI passthrough my video card (after some struggles).

The first days I was using USB passthrough for my mouse and keyboard, but this was a horrible experience, a lot of stuttering or not recognized keystrokes.
So I want to passthrough my USB Host controller, in the Intel NUC there is only one USB controller according lspci

0000:00:14.0

root@pve:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4660 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 460d (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation AlderLake-S GT1 (rev 0c)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 464f (rev 02)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ae0 (rev 11)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 7aa7 (rev 11)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 7af0 (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ae8 (rev 11)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ab0 (rev 11)
00:1d.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ab4 (rev 11)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7a84 (rev 11)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 7ad0 (rev 11)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 7aa3 (rev 11)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device 7aa4 (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev ef)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Aquantia Corp. Device 14c0 (rev 03)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Seagate Technology PLC Device 5018 (rev 01)

Note: In the attachment a more detailed log.

Considering I was using USB devices on other VMs I could not just transfer the entire controller, now that I have found other ways for the other VMs all the ports are free and I can transfer the entire controller, so I did.

Now everything seems to function normally, however when I insert a USB 3.0 stick into the ports no operating system recognizes the USB 3.0 device. If I insert a USB 2.0 extension cable then the device is visible. In Windows, you will also see a USB Root Hub (USB3.0) device.

Now I can leave it like that but then I'm leaving a lot of performance, and also I have 3 usb-c ports (2x thunderbolt 4) that I can't use optimally (or at all).

The PCI devices that I am passthroug now are:
hostpci0: 0000:01:00,pcie=1,x-vga=1
hostpci1: 0000:00:14.0,pcie=1
hostpci2: 0000:00:14.3,pcie=1

What have I forgotten or overlooked?
The behavior is the same in Windows 10, Ubuntu, macOS

[SOLVED]
I thought let me try the same thing I did with my video card.
I add the vfio-pci id to the file /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf

options vfio-pci ids=1002:67df,1002:aaf0 disable_vga=1
options vfio-pci ids=8086:7ae0

Now USB3.0 is working

 

[sterzy]

Hi,

would you mind marking this thread as solved so others can find this solution more easily?

Thanks!