unable to start a nested vm due to iommu_group issue

Greetings, I'm working on a new os for my server which runs 2 vms. I'm using nested vms to work on it so I won't take down the server. the new os is alpine 3.20, qemu is 9.0.1, libvirt is 10.3.0. I have a device I want to pass to one of the guests, here is the iommu group layout: IOMMU Group 18 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2918] (rev 02) IOMMU Group 18 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2922] (rev 02) IOMMU Group 18 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 02) IOMMU Group 18 00:1f.4 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03) the device in question is 00:1f.4: utils-server:/home/igor# lspci -s 00:1f.4 -nnv 00:1f.4 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03) Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU Virtual Machine [1af4:1100] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10, IOMMU group 18 Memory at e1080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci to achieve that, I've compiled the kernel with acs patch and defined it in the kernel cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-lts root=UUID=44299ace-27c6-4047-8cbd-bbffcc0a65f0 ro modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4 quiet rootfstype=ext4 iommu=pt intel_iommu=on pcie_acs_override=id:8086:293e,8086:10c9 I see in dmesg, acs is enabled, see: # dmesg | grep "ACS overrides" [ 0.000000] Warning: PCIe ACS overrides enabled; This may allow non-IOMMU protected peer-to-peer DMA the xml file can be found at https://bpa.st/FARQ. when I try to start the vm, I get this: # virsh start streamer error: Failed to start domain 'streamer' error: internal error: QEMU unexpectedly closed the monitor (vm='streamer'): 2024-06-21T08:39:17.959476Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device {"driver":"vfio-pci","host":"0000:00:1f.4","id":"hostdev0","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1f.0x5"}: vfio 0000:00:1f.4: group 18 is not viable Please ensure all devices within the iommu_group are bound to their vfio bus driver any ideas what am I missing? is it possible this cannot work within a vm? Thanks, Dagg