Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-12-24 Thread Günther Alka
Any improvement on the NVMe driver for 2017 as I see ongoing demand for NVMe devices in ESXi in pass-through mode for a virtualized Illumos based SAN/NAS ex https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/nvme-napp-it-omnios-pass-through-in-esxi-date.11043/ http://www.hardwareluxx.de/communit

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-26 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:04:07 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Hans Rosenfeld >> wrote: >>> >>> So perhaps apix/pcmplusmp need to do some cleanup work when interrupts >>> are released so that ESXi understands

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-26 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:04:07 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: So perhaps apix/pcmplusmp need to do some cleanup work when interrupts are released so that ESXi understands what happens there. I don't really know. Disabling the use of MSI-X in nv

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-26 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > So perhaps apix/pcmplusmp need to do some cleanup work when interrupts > are released so that ESXi understands what happens there. I don't really > know. > > Disabling the use of MSI-X in nvme on ESXi seems to workaround that > problem. I've

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-26 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:00:08AM -0700, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > On 10/22/16 17:54 , Frank M. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I´ve installed the new bloody as a new test virtual machine. The vm > > crashes whenever there is a access to the nvme device. > > Tests with a "special nvme driver" on the last

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-23 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
Hi Frank, On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:37:42PM +0200, Frank M. wrote: > Hi, > > unfortunately is /var/crash/unknown empty. It crashes without panic > screen - the system goes off. This happens, whenever the first access > to the nvme device occurs. Earlier versions reseted the system... > First acc

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-23 Thread Frank M.
Sunday, October 23, 2016, 7:00:08 PM, you wrote: RM> On 10/22/16 17:54 , Frank M. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I´ve installed the new bloody as a new test virtual machine. The vm >> crashes whenever there is a access to the nvme device. >> Tests with a "special nvme driver" on the last stable had no probl

Re: [discuss] NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2016-10-23 Thread Robert Mustacchi
On 10/22/16 17:54 , Frank M. wrote: > Hi, > > I´ve installed the new bloody as a new test virtual machine. The vm > crashes whenever there is a access to the nvme device. > Tests with a "special nvme driver" on the last stable had no problems. > I tested a Samsung SM951 on ESXi 6.0 U2 on a Supermi