Hello, I'm trying to migrate a working qemu command line configuration to libvirt. The part I'm currently failing on is: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -M Q35 ... -device vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,bus=pcie.0 The right way to translate this into libvirt XML seems to be using <hostdev>, but I seem to be unable to plug it into the pcie-root port This is how the interesting part looks like when I let "virsh edit" generate an <address> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pci-bridge'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </controller> [...] <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> [...] To my understanding, this will plug the host device into the pci-bridge controller. The guest OS doesn't boot with this and resets right after bios. Manually setting <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1E' function='0x0'/> cause XML validation failure. Is there any way in libvirt XML to plug a host's PCI-E device directly into the pcie-root port, like it works on qemu command line? I'm aware I could use something like <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,bus=pcie.0'/> </qemu:commandline> but I insist on running the VM as non-root, and if I got that right I need to configure at least one vfio device (or memory locking) in order for libvirt to set a proper RLIMIT_MEMLOCK value. Any help would be be appreciated. Regards, Thomas