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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SR-IOV and KVM?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:15:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E089069.7080507@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308964413.10806.8.camel@lappy>

On 06/24/2011 07:13 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:10 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> Is anyone working on SR-IOV for KVM, specifically for networking?  Or is
>> virtio good enough that it's not a pressing concern?
>>
>
> What exactly are you missing now?

Maybe it's just a documentation thing.  I'm just getting into KVM and 
trying to figure everything out, and I don't see a step-by-step guide to 
configuring a host/guest system with either SR-IOV or Intel's VMDq.

For SR-IOV I assume I need to configure the PF in the host, enable some 
number of VFs, pass through a VF to each guest and load the vf driver. 
Is that right?

Do I need to configure a software bridge to allow the guests to talk to 
each other?  I assume the passthrough require VT-d support in the 
hardware and host kernel--is that correct?

Thanks,
Chris

-- 
Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
chris.friesen@genband.com
www.genband.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-27 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24 21:10 SR-IOV and KVM? Chris Friesen
2011-06-25  1:09 ` lidong chen
2011-06-25  1:13 ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-27 14:15   ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2011-06-27 14:40     ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-27 15:15       ` David Ahern
2011-06-27 15:34     ` Steve Dobbelstein
2011-06-25  8:53 ` Troels Arvin
2011-06-27  4:23   ` David Ahern
2011-06-27  8:18     ` Troels Arvin
2011-06-27 14:59       ` David Ahern
2011-06-28 20:09         ` Troels Arvin

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