vfio passtrhough fails at 'No available IOMMU models' on Intel BDW-EP platform Environment: ------------ Host OS (ia32/ia32e/IA64): ia32e Guest OS (ia32/ia32e/IA64): ia32e Guest OS Type (Linux/Windows): linux kvm.git Commit: da3f7ca3 qemu.git Commit: 38a762fe Host Kernel Version: 4.4.0-rc2 Hardware: BDW EP (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz, Grantley-EP) Bug description: -------------------------- when create guest with vt-d assignment using vfio-pci driver, the guest can not be created. Warning 'No available IOMMU models' Reproduce steps: ---------------- 1. bind device to vfio-pci driver 2. qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 2 -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0 -net none -drive file=rhel7u2.qcow2,if=none,id=virtio-disk0 -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=virtio-disk0 Current result: ---------------- qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0: vfio: No available IOMMU models qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0: vfio: failed to setup container for group 41 qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0: vfio: failed to get group 41 qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0: Device initialization failed Expected result: ---------------- guest can be created Basic root-causing log: ---------------------- 