- ppc hotplug does not work with kvm driver, it must be vfio by default. Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <joserz(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/kimchi/model/vmhostdevs.py | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/kimchi/model/vmhostdevs.py b/src/kimchi/model/vmhostdevs.py index 964ec49..31e0b92 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/model/vmhostdevs.py +++ b/src/kimchi/model/vmhostdevs.py @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ from kimchi.model.utils import get_vm_config_flag from kimchi.model.vms import DOM_STATE_MAP, VMModel from kimchi.rollbackcontext import RollbackContext from kimchi.utils import kimchi_log, run_command +import platform class VMHostDevsModel(object): @@ -164,6 +165,10 @@ class VMHostDevsModel(object): driver = ('vfio' if DOM_STATE_MAP[dom.info()[0]] == "shutoff" and self.caps.kernel_vfio else 'kvm') + # on ppc systems it must be vfio driver. + if platform.machine().startswith('ppc'): + driver = 'vfio' + # Attach all PCI devices in the same IOMMU group dev_model = DeviceModel(conn=self.conn) devs_model = DevicesModel(conn=self.conn) -- 1.9.1