Re: PCI Passthrough, error: The driver 'pci-stub' is occupying your device 0000:08:06.2

Daniel P. Berrange
2011-02-07T13:26:45Z

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 04:34:01PM +0000, James Neave wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to pass a NOVA-T-500 TV Tuner card through to a gust VM.
> I'm getting the error "The driver 'pci-stub' is occupying your device
> 0000:08:06.2"

This is a rather misleading error message. It is *expected* that
pci-stub will occupy the device. Unfortunately the rest of the
error messages QEMU is printing aren't much help either, but
ultimately something is returning -EBUSY in the PCI device assign
step

Regards,
Daniel
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