sriov

Obsolete

This hook has been obsoleted by the native support of SR-IOV.

The sriov vdsm hook enables SRIOV support in oVirt.

The hook works as follows:

• receives a VF via its os nic names, i.e. sriov=eth5
• gets its pci address
• detaches it from the os
• creates an xml representation of the device for libvirt domain
• adds it to the guest xml

syntax:

  sr-iov: sriov=eth10,eth11

Will attach 2 sr-iov VFs to vm

RHEL6 sr-iov notes:

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• Enable IOMME:
  • Intel CPU, pass intel_iommu=on to the kernel command line

  (dmesg

  grep “Intel-IOMMU: enabled” # make sure that iommu is enabled)

• • AMD CPU

• Load sr-iov PF and VF
  • Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection:

  modprobe igb max_vfs=7

7 is max for 82576 card