Re: unable to assign devices with VT-d in KVM

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/27/2009 12:07 PM, Erez Shitrit wrote:
> Hi,
> I am KVM newbie, trying to run and use the KVM.
> When I tried to assign pci device to new virtual machine I got the next
> error:
>
> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid option -- '-pcidevice'
>
> I followed the instructions in the
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM
> page,
> I am using RH5_4 with the new kernel for rh5.5: 2.6.18-prep (2.6.18.197)
> I run the next command
> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -boot c -net none -hda
> /sdb5/images/test2.img -pcidevice host=04:00.0
>
> And I got
>
> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid option -- '-pcidevice'
>
>
> The qemu-system-x86_64 version is:
> 	QEMU PC emulator version 0.11.91, Copyright (c) 2003-2008
> Fabrice Bellard
>
> What I missed?
>
>    

You're running the upstream qemu, which doesn't support device assignment.

Download qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 from http://linux-kvm.org.

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