[Bug 1902306] [NEW] Allow setting usb storage device ID parameters

2020-10-30 Thread Greg Zdanowski
Public bug reported: Some stubborn software requires certain VID/PID/Serial to authenticate and refuses to start in emulation. This poses a problem with unsupported programs which often require keeping an ancient hardware praying that the USB stick will not die before the (often defunct) company m

[Bug 1869006] Re: PCIe cards passthrough to TCG guest works on 2GB of guest memory but fails on 4GB (vfio_dma_map invalid arg)

2020-10-20 Thread Greg Zdanowski
@alex-l-williamson: is there any safe(ish) way to ignore RMRR coming from BIOS? I don't know how IOMMU actually works in the kernel but theoretically if kernel had a flag forcing it to ignore certain RMRRs? If I understand this correctly ignoring an RMRR entry may cause two things: 1) DMA failur