Stuck on boot with intel N150 iGPU Passthrough

[ChinoeAsian]

Hi all,

The last few days I've been trying to passthrough the iGPU of my intel N150 mini pc (gmktec g3 plus) to my ubuntu vm on proxmox for hardware acceleration in jellyfin. However, after following all the steps, the vm keeps getting stuck during boot. Do you guys perhaps know what the problem is?

I ran the following steps on Proxmox 9.1.2 with ubuntu 25.10:

1. Edited grub in proxmox to enable IOMMU -> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt"
2. Added VFIO modules to load on boot -> echo -e "vfio\nvfio_iommu_type1\nvfio_pci\nvfio_virqfd" > /etc/modules-load.d/vfio.conf
3. Bound GPU to VFIO in /etc/modprobe.d/vfio-pci.conf by adding options vfio-pci ids=8086:46d4
4. Blacklisted intel drivers in proxmox and updated initramfs-> echo -e "blacklist i915\nblacklist snd_hda_intel" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Afterwards I added to GPU to the vm, my config is as follows:
name: ubuntu
cores: 3
sockets: 1
memory: 12288
cpu: host
numa: 0
ostype: l26
machine: q35
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-0,efitype=4m,size=4M
scsi0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-1,cache=writeback,discard=on,iothread=1,size=380G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
hostpci0: 0000:00:02,pcie=1
onboot: 1

However, when I boot up the VM, it keeps getting stuck around these times:





I have already tried removing the gpu and installing the intel-media-va-driver-non-free AND/OR intel-media-va-driver and then reenabling the GPU, however the boot issue remains. Also tried to disable "all function", " ROM-Bar", etc in the vm config. Please help me if possible, thank you!

 

[Sviat]

Hi,

Your Intel N150 mini‑PC almost certainly cannot passthrough its iGPU. On Alder Lake‑N systems (N95/N100/N150), the iGPU is not in its own IOMMU group, has no proper reset support, so passthrough causes exactly the VM boot freeze you’re seeing.
The hardware simply doesn’t allow iGPU passthrough.
Instead you can try to use install Jellyfin inside an LXC container, not a VM.
Then edit the LXC config to pass the GPU device e.g.

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 226:* rwm
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dri dev/dri none bind,optional,create=dir

Inside the container, install Intel VAAPI drivers and Jellyfin.
In Jellyfin settings, select /dev/dri/renderD128 for hardware acceleration.

 

[LongQT-sea]

Tested this guide on a variety of N9x, N1XX, N2XX, and N3XX systems, it works every time. Just make sure the VM has the full kernel installed, as the Proxmox VE helper scripts only install a minimal kernel version, which lacks some drivers.

https://github.com/LongQT-sea/intel-igpu-passthru