RC3 VM Alias Handler Change?

I'm running a pfsense VM with a 2port NIC and an Atheros Wifi card passed through.

(I have a slightly unreliable POINT to POINT LTE connection, and occasional mission critical internet requirements - So the Wifi card is set to automatically connect to my cell phone hotspot)

I had trouble getting this Wifi card to work with an error message referencing hostdev1 or something not fitting in BARs.

I searched, I posted, I got a great answer from Ghost82 who translated the info I had found into the xml:

    <qemu:commandline>
      <qemu:arg value='-set'/>
      <qemu:arg value='device.hostdev1.x-msix-relocation=bar2'/>
    </qemu:commandline>
  </domain>

This, with minimal fiddling (hostdev0 not hostdev1) worked perfectly.

20220220_2240_pfSense - Cerberus.xml

Right up until I updated to RC3.

First the VFIO passthrough changed in System Devices, and then after I re-enabled that it still would not boot the VM.

But now it doesn't refer to any hostdev id... it refers to it as bellow

If I remove the Wifi card the 2 NIC ports get alias' lines, but if I add the Wifi card back in nothing does.

Working - No WIFI.txt

If I edit the xml to give the Wifi card an alias and put the comandline part back in.

WIFI Added with Command.txt

I get an error claiming there is no hostdev0

and when I look back in the XML the alias' are all gone.

Alias missing.txt

Ghost82 suggests editing the XML in the cli but I haven't tried that yet. Would it make a difference? Should it?

Has there been some change t the way alias' are handled? I don't understand why they disappear.

Thanks for any help

Arbadacarba

jupiter-diagnostics-20220315-0016.zip