[KVM] Failed to start the KVM guest with "No IOMMU found. Unable to assign device "hostdev0" " error message.
Issue
- Failed to start the KVM guest vm with the following messages.
Error: Domain rhel6-vm could not be started
Error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to / dev/pts/2
No IOMMU found. Unable to assign device "hostdev0"
qemu-kvm:-device pci-assign, host = 04:10.0, id = hostdev0, configfd = 27, bus = pci.0, addr = 0x6: Device 'pci-assign' could not be initialized
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- Processor: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6164 HE
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