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From: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Subject: Re: Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:25:17 +0300
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On 10/01/2015 01:24 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 01:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 12:53:14PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> Non-virtualized setups have an iommu available, but they can also use
>>> pci_uio_generic without patching if they like.
>> Not with VFs, they can't.
>>
>
> They can and they do (I use it myself).

I mean with a PF.  Why use a VF on a non-virtualized system?