[SOLVED] SAS PCIE Passthrough Not working -DL380p g8

[djkay2637]

Good afternoon All,

I have been frantically attempting to resolve an issue that, i have to admit, has been keeping me away at night. Like lots of people, i have been migrating away from ESXI and over to PM VE. So far so good with my homelab server.

I have a fresh install of the latest 8.2.2 on a ZFS SSD, set iOMMU to on, followed every tutorial i can find but when i attempt to pass my HBA card thorough to a VM, i get the error below. It did work fine in ESXI so i know the bios is set correctly.


This is the error:

kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=0000:07:00.0,id=hostpci0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x10: vfio 0000:07:00.0: failed to setup container for group 50: Failed to set group container: Invalid argument
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

There are no other devices on Group 50. I have backlisted the mpt3sas driver, however when PM boots, the disks from the SAS card are visible within Proxmox VE. ( not sure if this is relevant) When the VM starts, they do disappear.

Server is a HP DL380e G8. PCIE device:

07:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
        DeviceName: Storage Controller
        Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI 9211-8i
        Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci
        Kernel modules: mpt3sas

The VM is a q35 type, RAM ballooning off and i am using the same settings as i did for my SuperMicro server which worked as expected.

Does anybody have any suggestions i could try?

Thank you in advance,
Kind regards,
Dan.

 

[djkay2637]

I resolved the issue using this method

I hope it helps somebody else with a HPE DL208p G8.

 

[z3t]

Hi, I have the same issue with a HP DL380G8 and a HP H221 / SAS2308-IT HBA running with Linux 6.8.4-3-pve.
maybe you can point me into the right direction if the method above is still valid?
(sry I am quite new to proxmox and I have no clue what to do next..)

device:

07:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)
        DeviceName: Storage Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett Packard Enterprise H221 / 9207-8e
        Physical Slot: 2
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 115, NUMA node 0, IOMMU group 52
        I/O ports at 7000 [size=256]
        Memory at f7ff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Memory at f7f80000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [a8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [1e0] Secondary PCI Express
        Capabilities: [1c0] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [190] Dynamic Power Allocation <?>
        Capabilities: [148] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
        Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci
        Kernel modules: mpt3sas

kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=0000:07:00.0,id=hostpci0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x10: vfio 0000:07:00.0: failed to setup container for group 52: Failed to set group container: Invalid argument
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1