Failed to Setup Container for group 57: No available IOMMU Models

Problem

Instance in an error state as libvirtd failed to setup container for group 57 as there was no IOMMU module configured on the host.

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Failed to start libvirt guest: libvirtError: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2020-06-26T23:19:48.842902Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=83:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5: vfio error: 0000:83:00.0: failed to setup container for group 57: No available IOMMU models

Environment

• Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All Versions
• Libvirtd

Cause

1. vfio_iommu_type1 module isn't loaded.

None

pf9@host:~$ lsmod | grep vfio_iommu_type1pf9@host:~$

Resolution

1. Load the Module using the followingcommand.

None

pf9@host:~$ modprobe module_name

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pf9@host:~$ lsmod | grep vfio_iommu_type1vfio_iommu_type1       20480  0vfio                   28672  2 vfio_iommu_type1,vfio_pci

1. Instance seen to be in the running state after making the change.

None

pf9@host:~$ sudo virsh list --all | grep [UUID] 14    [UUID] running

Additional Information