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Guess i'm SOTL then. My mobo has the support for it, but the processor (an old 2600k) doesn't seem to have VT-d (which is the Intel term for iommu?) It does have virtualization, but not "for directed i/o): https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/52214/intel-core-i7-2600k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz.html oh well, it was a good dream.

Hi there. I want to do something similar, but instead of passing through a single CD-Rom drive, I want to pass through a single SATA port, which is connected to an external bay, which will be using different hard drives (which is why I don't want to pass it by unique hard drive UUID, which is the alternate method). You see, this server has an external hard drive connector bay that I have been using as a way to dock hard drives of service PCs I use to image the drive with Macrium Reflect. So passing through a hard drive by UUID when a new hard drive is less ideal than just passing a SATA port (which is what you do, but on an optical drive). However, I'm using a Windows 10 vm to test this and I can't seem to pass the hard drive to it. I need some help: Where do you exactly paste this particular piece of text? Anywhere on the configuration XML? Or does it need to live in a specific place (let's say, inside the <device> </device> part of the XML? between the <controller> tags existing in there, anywhere else, so on and so forth? I only get the "unidentified SCSI controller" and the VirtIO drivers don't work. My computer doesn't have IOMMU support, but I don't know if that matters in this case. Thank you in advance for your help.