Re: [vfio-users] fitlet I211 PCI passthrough

2016-03-26 Thread YAEGASHI Takeshi
Dear Alex, First, thank you for your write-up on the blog, that was very helpful. And I'm afraid that you're already bored of repeating the same answer again and again. :-) 2016-03-27 0:15 GMT+09:00 Alex Williamson : > The grouping occurs the way it does because 00:02.* is a multifunction > devic

Re: [vfio-users] fitlet I211 PCI passthrough

2016-03-26 Thread globalgorrilla
Even while I use SR-IOV interfaces passed through, I still find openvswitch very useful. In your scenario I might just use openvswitch and bind all the NICs. Perhaps use DPDK if you're primarily doing networking with the device. Also CoreOS might be nice if again you're building a dedicated r

Re: [vfio-users] fitlet I211 PCI passthrough

2016-03-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:28 AM, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fitlet http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fitlet/ with 4 GbE > (I211) ports and wanted to passthrough some of them to KVM guests, ie > assign one I211 to each guests. I've tried various configurations > with libvirt/k

Re: [vfio-users] fitlet I211 PCI passthrough

2016-03-26 Thread Bob Dawes
There's rarely much harm to hardware in playing around with anything other than the fan control / bios / soldering, though obviously you can kill your OS installation (but that's just one reason why we love VM's!). I wouldn't expect much success as the four network devices are likely together b

[vfio-users] fitlet I211 PCI passthrough

2016-03-26 Thread YAEGASHI Takeshi
Hello, I have a fitlet http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fitlet/ with 4 GbE (I211) ports and wanted to passthrough some of them to KVM guests, ie assign one I211 to each guests. I've tried various configurations with libvirt/kvm but no luck so far. After reading http://vfio.blogspot.jp/2014/08/