[OmniOS-discuss] omnios kvm options

[Dan McDonald]

> On Jan 30, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter at vantagetitle.com> wrote:
> 
> As long as illumos-kvm is fairly up to date with the official KVM repo then something like this should do.
> 
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM
> 
> But keep in mind, that passes through an entire PCI device. So you will have to pass over the entire RAID controller, not just one enclosure attached to it.

The KVM in OmniOS is the same one in SmartOS, and the kvm-cmd is a few revs behind because some illumos changes haven't been upstreamed yet.

You should consult SmartOS documention about KVM and raw disks, it'll apply to OmniOS as well.

Dan