Thanks for the tip. I went to the bios and enabled the Intel Virtualization Technology and I thought I was done. After further research I recognized there are two steps to Enable the Intel Virtualization Technology. https://us.informatiweb.net/tutorials/it/bios/enable-iommu-or-vt-d-in-your-bios.html
I do not see mt WIFI card in my VM
I am thinking I need to pass the WIFI card PCI to my VM. So, I have ASUS H110T motherboard and I am trying to get M.2 wifi card be recognized by the VM. I followed the instruction here https://xcp-ng.org/docs/compute.html. I enabled the Virtualization in BIOS. SSH to xcp-ng.
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1d.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #10 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H110 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V (rev 31)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
I am interested in passing-through the 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32) I followed the instruction.
# /opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --set-dom0 "xen-pciback.hide=(0000:02:00.0)"
# reboot
The WIFI card was excluded.
# xl pci-assignable-list
0000:02:00.0
then I added the PCI to the VM but I am getting an error. This is the third time I am doing this the first time there was no error but I could not see the WIFI card in the VM either. Any suggestion on how to solve this error ?
# xe vm-param-set other-config:pci=0/0000:02:00.0 uuid=b29a6204-c911-93cc-32bb-89a7f80ba06e
# xe vm-start uuid=b29a6204-c911-93cc-32bb-89a7f80ba06e
The server failed to handle your request, due to an internal error. The given message may give details useful for debugging the problem.
message: xenopsd internal error: Xenctrl.Error("22: Invalid argument")
I am back to the office and I am troubleshooting different settings and connection setups. I appreciate all your input. The issue is configuring the right NIC0/NIC1/WAN/ and LAN. Once I am done I post my setting. Thanks again for everyone.
how have you configured the network for your vm?
@HeMaN I set everything to go through pfsense. Hence, the openwrt VM WAN is connected to static IP from pfsense 192.168.30.12. The openwrt VM LAN is 192.168.20.1/24.
first create a network connected to a physical nic and use that as wan for openwrt
then create en internal network (or use another nic) and use that as lan for openwrt.
@HeMaN Thank you for the tip. Just to make sure I understand correctly. I already have WAN and LAN networks for each NIC. But for some reason only the LAN is recognized by the Openwrt and I can not connect to the internet when I am on the LAN. I think it is a network issue this is why I decided to just follow the guide.
ps what is the use of openwrt when you already have pfsense?
both are basically routers
I love pfsense but the OS but the WIFI support lags behind. I am planning to use openwrt for WIFI access.
I have a small PC that I was using as a pfsense router/firewall. I wanted to add WIFI capability to the unit. I tested openwrt on the current hardware and it worked. Now, I virtualized the pfsense (working) and I would like to add the openwrt. There are instruction on how to install openwrt on Xen https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/xen and I though this may work on xcp-ng but I need some help.
I am not sure where to place the domain configuration file Xen-OpenWrt.conf
I am assuming the network configuration is done at the xcp-ng terminal, right?
brctl addbr owrt-lan
ip link set owrt-lan up
ip addr add 192.168.1.42/24 dev owrt-lan
brctl addbr owrt-wan
ip link set dev eth0 up
brctl addif owrt-wan eth0
ip link set owrt-wan up
Please note I have no IT background but I love tinkering. Thanks in advance for your help and input.
