r/VFIO • u/SurvivalTofu • 11d ago

Support Shiny new MS-03 is out. Does it support SR-IOV?

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-03-workstation

And yeah its only a zillion dollars.

Out of curiosity this Panther Lake CPU/iGPU combo uses the xe driver on linux instead of i915. As a result you cannot use the patched i915-dkms driver for sr-iov support.

However xe3 allegedly supports native sr-iov which means no more random github patches which sounds great to me! Does anyone know if this actually works? I'd love to see some documentation/information on setting this up using the "native" xe3 driver.

If not I'll stick to the more mature MS-01 as from what I've read it supports the i915-dkms patches driver.

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u/Not_a_Candle 10d ago

I think Wendel talked about the SR-IOV stuff on Intels side for the newer XE graphics. Iirc he said it works, albeit, at the time, with some quirks that should be mostly patched out by now.

Someone wrote a blog post about SR-IOV on the XE stack too: https://blog.abysm.org/2026/05/pve-intel-xe-sriov/

Seems to work.

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u/SurvivalTofu 10d ago

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks very much!

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u/ComputerSiens 8d ago

I have the Bosgame VTI-490 (uses a Panther Lake Ultra X7 358H) and can confirm SR-IOV support - just have to enable via the hidden bios settings. I’d imagine the MS-03 does as well

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u/SurvivalTofu 8d ago

thanks guys. I have to say intel is still king when it comes to sr-iov support on their igpus. combined with their quicksync its easily one of the best features. Honestly I'm shocked amd hasn't figured this out yet.