Not sure if this is the best place to ask for this kind of help but here it is. I am setting up IOMMU using this Arch Wiki article and have set up a passthrough for a selected GPU using a script placed at /usr/local/bin/vfio-pci-override.sh, due to having 2 RX580’s.
The issue is that vfio-pci doesn’t load on boot and I get a
sh: /usr/local/bin/vfio-pci-override.sh: Permission denied
The file is owned by root and has 755 permissions, in addition I moved modconf after block and filesystems in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as suggested by this thread. I checked if vfio-pci was succesfully echoed to /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:05:00.0/driver_override using cat but the only thing there is
(null)
I’ll provide other files and info if needed. I really appreciate the help!
System specs/logs
- CPU | Intel Core i7-5820K
- Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P
- Memory | Crucial Ballistix Sport 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 Memory
- Storage | TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan G 1 TB SSD
- Storage | Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" HDD
- Video Cards | x2 [MSI ARMOR OC Radeon RX 580 8 GB](https://ca.pcpartpick
OS: Artix Linux Kernel: 6.6.9-artix1-1 Init System: OpenRC GPU Driver: amdgpu Encryption: I use Full-Disk Encryption
Indeed, although don’t just copy-paste the snippet I wrote: I just wrote it on the spot without testing it, you have to tweak it to run the function for the PCI device(s) you have in the IOMMU group of the GPU you want to pass through. In my case it’s just 0000:03:00.0 and 0000:03:00.1, perhaps you will also only need two since the GPUs are the same.
You can procrastinate on doing all that, I’m fairly certain nothing will blow up.
Unfortunately my setup is very complex, I hacked together a framework of Zsh scripts that use libvirt hooks - otherwise I would just copy them here.
I didn’t mean to say that you must use 0000:05:00.0 specifically, only to follow the rest of the guide without having the script - I’m not sure about identifying the correct device, I did that a long time ago, but I am pretty sure the AL Wiki guide has a way to list GPUs.
The error you get is self-explainatory: along with 0000:05:00.0 (or whatever device), you must also list the ones in the same IOMMU group, which should also be identified along with the PCI device(s) you want to pass through.
EDIT: I skimmed through the guide, apparently it’s extremely un-straightforward (gayforward? idk), I’ll try to make a director’s cut.
#!/bin/bash shopt -s nullglob for g in $(find /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/* -maxdepth 0 -type d | sort -V); do echo "IOMMU Group ${g##*/}:" for d in $g/devices/*; do echo -e "\t$(lspci -nns ${d##*/})" done; done;
As to identifying which of the two is which GPU, your only safe bet is trying to determine which monitor is connected to which PCI device somehow, which I have no idea how to do - I went with trial and error, and hard resets.