> Have you enabled SR-IOV in the bios? I love how the various BIOS entries have zero help even though AMI has an empty help/description field. No, that was not enabled -- thanks! -- but even enabling it, doing a cold/poweroff boot cycle does nothing. It still gives the exact same error message.
> I also suspect that Xen doesnt allow to PCI passthrough host device > right? I actually haven't tried that. All of the various Xen "docs"/how-tos I've read say that each preceding step must be done or it won't work. (Based on your input, I'll try that but I'm not hopeful.) At this point I've read that Xen's passthrough might not work with some motherboard chipsets, so I'm wondering if Xen is a bit too cutting edge for what I want to do. What I want to do is to run multiple secure/separated VMs on a machine. One of those VMs will be to handle an Internet connection and firewall. Another VM will do filesharing via NFS and Samba; another VM is to run Kodi and output videos/TV via HDMI to a TV/monitor. From everything I've read, Xen is the ideal choice -- but only if I can get it to run. :) -- The first known legal proclamation in the history of the world is on display in Paris, in the Louvre. It was given about 2400 B.C. by Enmetena, ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash. It was a decree of debt cancellation.
