Re: Would there be interest in virtualization of the ixgbe driver?

2011-01-13 Thread Jack Vogel
While it seems interesting in theory, from what Ryan has told me it would require massive change to the code base, which I do not think is worthwhile without significant demand. This ability could be provided with SRIOV host support, which I would rather see. I'm still willing to look at changes

Re: Would there be interest in virtualization of the ixgbe driver?

2011-01-13 Thread Jack Vogel
Doesn't matter, I have a coworker who handles Solaris, he can probably give me some info :) SRIOV allows you to partition the device at the PCI level and then you can 'assign' to a virtual guest or whatever, its still the most desireable to me. Jack On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Brandon Goo

Re: KVM+FreeBSD+82599 10G NIC doesn't work.

2013-05-16 Thread Jack Vogel
The environment that I tested in when the virtualization support was put into the driver was using SRIOV, not pass-through, we have never validated the latter, and whenever it crops up it seems to be having problems. I can put it into my queue to look into, but I can't say how quickly I can get to

Re: Problem with KVM / FreeBSD Guest

2013-07-02 Thread Jack Vogel
What version/distro of Linux are you using. I've had both a 2 and 4 cpu kvm guest for development purposes here at Intel and it worked fine. Last I used it was on Fedora 17 if memory serves, its been a while. Jack On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Aljoscha Vollmerhaus < avollmerh...@googlemail.co