i configure pci passthrough on my Proxmox and i saw in the GUI under the Advanced tab the Option to assign a Vendor / Device ID, but what is the usecase of this "feature" and in what format do i have to enter the Vendor / Device ID?
it allows you to set an arbitrary vendor ID and device ID for the passthroughed device, e.g. your GPU.
the guest would then see that ID, instead of the actual vendor of the device.
for a standard PCI passthrough normally it's not necessary to spoof this value.
it's in the form of hexadecimal numbers, for example 0x1002 or 0x1022 in the beginning is for AMD devices (vendor ID). you can also look them up in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. to see your devices ids' you can use lspci -nn. the last part that looks like [somenumber:somenumber] is the identifier, e.g. [10de:0040] would be NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra, and would have the values 0x10de (vendor ID) and 0x0040 (device ID).
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