[pve-devel] [PATCH docs 3/3] pci-passthrough: add note about mediated devices w.r.t kernel modules

Christoph Heiss c.heiss at proxmox.com
Tue Oct 22 12:19:39 CEST 2024


Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss at proxmox.com>
---
 qm-pci-passthrough.adoc | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
index 70e33f2..ae0bdde 100644
--- a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
+++ b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ to the xref:sysboot_edit_kernel_cmdline[kernel commandline].
 You have to make sure the following modules are loaded. This can be achieved by
 adding them to `'/etc/modules''.
 
+.Mediated devices passthrough
+[NOTE]
+====
+If passing through mediated devices (e.g. vGPUs), the following is not needed.
+In these cases, the device will be owned by the appropriate host-driver
+directly.
+====
+
 ----
  vfio
  vfio_iommu_type1
@@ -274,6 +282,13 @@ Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci
 or the 'in use' line is missing entirely, the device is ready to be used for
 passthrough.
 
+.Mediated devices
+[NOTE]
+====
+For mediated devices this line will differ as the device will be owned as the
+host driver directly, not 'vfio-pci'.
+====
+
 [[qm_pci_passthrough_vm_config]]
 VM Configuration
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-- 
2.46.0





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