NIC direct assignment to Guest

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Xavier NX
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Hello everyone,
I am trying to assign the integrated ethernet card to guest. It’s surprising that NIC is not a PCI device but an integrated transceiver ISA (RTLK8211FDI) so VFIO wouldn’t work. Is there any other way to assign the NIC to my guest directly?

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Hi reswara1,

Sorry for the late response, may I know whether this is still an issue to support or you have managed to resolved it?

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Hey Kayccc,
Thank you so much for responding.
I couldn’t find any ways to assign NIC directly to the guest. As the NIC is not a PCI device, I have no idea how to do it without VFIO.
I would really appreciate it if I could get your thoughts on it.

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Hi reswara1,

I also have no idea how to do that, may other developers share experiences if they done something similar.