[SOLVED] PCI Passthrough: VT-d is enabled but proxmox reports: "No IOMMU detected, please activate it."

[Grezer]

I am trying to set up PCI Passthrough for a GPU, but am running into a problem.

Step 1: I opened the BIOS, found the VT-d section and made sure it was enabled. (Look at screen_1)
The Interrupt Remapping is also enabled.

Step 2: Edit (path: /etc/default/grub)

# GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUD_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on"

Step 3: Run update-grub

Step 4: Edit /etc/modules

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
vfio
vfio_iommu_type1
vfio_pci
vfio_virqfd

Step 5: Rebooting the host machine.

... and see the problem: In proxmox interface "Add: PCI Device" I see the following message: "No IOMMU detected, please activate it.See Documentation for further information". (look at screen_2)

I never got any further and don't know how to solve this problem.
I'm hoping for your help.

P.S.: Processors support VT-d (see specs).
The motherboard (I think) also supports this feature, as you can see this switch in the BIOS.


Configuration:
- Motherboard: HUANANZHI X99 DUAL-F8D (Specs)
- 2x CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (Specs)
- GPU: ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3060 V2 OC Edition 12GB (Specs)

 

[leesteken]

What is the output of cat /proc/cmdline? Maybe your Proxmox does not use GRUB.

 

[Grezer]

What is the output of cat /proc/cmdline? Maybe your Proxmox does not use GRUB.

Result:

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.111-1-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro

 

[leesteken]

Result:

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.111-1-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro

As you can see, intel_iommu=on is not there and therefore IOMMU is not enabled by Proxmox. Add it according to the Proxmox manual (it is always needed for Intel, even on kernel 5.15 and higher). Make sure to apply your changes using the appropriate command for your bootloader.

 

[Grezer]

Thanks for your help!
The whole problem was a typo
In the first message (step 2), the letter D in the word GRUB

 

[maxlnc]

Documentations states

you may also need to enable the IOMMU on the kernel command line for older (pre-5.15) kernels

which can misleading since this setting seems to be required on Intel systems in general. Since this comes up often on the forum (I did a brief search), can the documentation be updated?