In order to use a certain card in a vm of win7 32 under linux, I unbound all other pci devices in the iommu group as the desired card. So when this happens I can't use my motherboard gigabit nic and the cdrom is not connected, as well as some USB ports connected to the Southbridge. So up to now I sort of took it that I could never use those devices (until rebooting) again. Then I was thinking about it and wondering why I could not just have the host system talk to the devices in their new locations? It could be that they are not accessible due to environmental fencing at that point? Also it could be doable if Linux itself was being hypervised, but I don't want to deal with it. Just wondering if anyone knew if the computer itself could reclaim some of these vfio-pci devices? As it stands I am using a USB wireless dongle to be sending this.