6.12.6 (and probably .5 as well) break VM with PCI passthrough

You are likely to get better informed feedback if you attach your system’s diagnostics zip file to your next post in this thread so we can see more about your system.

It's attached in the original post, unless you're referring to something different?

1 hour ago, optiluca said:

It's attached in the original post, unless you're referring to something different?

Sorry,   I missed it being beneath the screenshot

I have this issue as well.  I upgraded from 6.11.5 to 6.12.6 and my VM stopped working that had an ethernet controller passthrough.  My log file went to 100%. & one of my cpu was running 98% all the time.  I removed my binded ethernet ports from system devices and the cpu went to normal along with the log file to 1%.  Not sure what to do at this point since I need a binded ethernet port to run the VM I have.  Have you come across a fix ? 

In my case the PCI passthrough is for the graphics card (I'm passing through the integrated graphics on a Ryzen 5600G).  I have not found a fix, I'm stuck on Unraid 6.12.4.

Edited January 13 by optiluca

Did you check that the hardware ID's for the passed through hardware did not change after the upgrade and thus the pass throughs need re-doing?   This is not uncommon after and upgrade.

They seem to be unchanged.  Going back to my original issue, the error is:

 

Verify all devices in group 20 are bound to vfio- or pci-stub and not already in use

 

And IOMMU group 20 only contains 1 device, and it is bound to vfio-...

I checked my hardware ID's and all looks well.  What I ended up doing was pulling my RTL8111 ethernet quad card and installed an Intel dual and binded one of the ports to my VM.  Restarted the VM and all is well again.  Looks like the RTL8111 is an issue with 6.12.6 no matter what setup I tried.  I did try the RTL driver APP but the server just has errors and error corrections on boot up with 6.12.6.  All that has since ended since pulling the card out and installing an Intel.  Before all this I did roll back to 6.11.5 and the RTL8111 card worked without issue.  Upgraded again to 6.12.6 and no good no matter how I tried to bind the card to the VM. Hope this helps anyone else that may have the same issue.  

I tried 6.12.5, just to be able to confirm when the issue appeared, and can confirm that 6.12.5 also presents this error.  I've downgraded back to 6.12.4 for now.

The offending device was a USB controller that I was passing through to the VM.  It's still unclear why this started happening in 6.12.5 - but I've worked around it by not passing through the entire USB controller, but only the individual devices.

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