Bug#826367:

2016-06-04 Thread Timothy Pearson
Apologies; one of the options given above was incorrect. The following options need to be set on ppc64el to enable PCI VFIO functionality: CONFIG_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU=y CONFIG_VFIO=m CONFIG_VFIO_PCI=m

Bug#826367: Enable VFIO PCI passthrough on ppc64le

2016-06-04 Thread Timothy Pearson
Package: linux-image-4.5.0-2-powerpc64le Version: 4.5.5-1 Severity: important VFIO PCI passthrough is not available on POWER8 systems due to several missing kernel configuration options. PCI passthrough is an important feature of POWER8 machines, works well under at least Linux 4.5, and should be