I recently installed Proxmox 4.4 and now having an issue with configuring SR-IOV for the Intel 82599ES 10 GbE adapter. The VM I want passthrough to is running SophosUTM9.4 which should support the ixgbe driver.
First I followed the offical Proxmox PCI-Passthrough guide.
So right now my Grub file looks like:
Next:
Then I added the vfio commands at /etc/modules
I only want to create 4 VF's at the first port of the card, so afterwards I created:
Update:
Afterwards I rebooted and
gave me:
Looks like it worked.
My current VM config (SophosUTM 9.4):
Note:
Is a physical port of my i350-T2 adapter which is the WAN port of the VM.
If I add the 82599 ES VF with:
The i350 port is not comming up 
and Sophos is showing the 82599 VF neither....
and
doesn't work either, with the difference that the i350 WAN port is comming up.
Right now I don't have a clue, why I can't pass the 82599ES VF through without taking my WAN port down. While I am writing this I had the idea that maybe SophosUTM is not supporting the igbvf and ixgbevf driver?
Can create a bridge on the PF and still passthrough the VF to other VM's, or is it not possible to use the PF whith the VF at the same time?
I will be thankfull for anykind of help.
First I followed the offical Proxmox PCI-Passthrough guide.
So right now my Grub file looks like:
Code:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt"
Code:
root@pve1:~# update-grub
Code:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
vfio
vfio_iommu_type1
vfio_pci
vfio_virqfd
Code:
root@pve1:~# vi /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe.conf
options ixgbe allow_unsupported_sfp=1,1 max_vfs=4,0
Code:
root@pve1:~# update-initramfs -uAfterwards I rebooted and
Code:
root@pve1:~# lspci
Code:
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
06:10.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller Virtual Function (rev 01)
06:10.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller Virtual Function (rev 01)
06:10.4 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller Virtual Function (rev 01)
06:10.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller Virtual Function (rev 01)My current VM config (SophosUTM 9.4):
Code:
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 2
hostpci0: 03:00.1,pcie=1
hostpci1: 06:10.0,pcie=2
ide2: none,media=cdrom
machine: q35
memory: 3072
name: SophosUTM1
net0: e1000=C2:AA:82:5A:06:57,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: l24
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=8701292b-e62d-4a8b-a899-b4867849a57e
sockets: 1
virtio0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1,size=40G
Code:
hostpci0: 03:00.1,pcie=1If I add the 82599 ES VF with:
Code:
hostpci1: 06:10.0,pcie=1and
Code:
hostpci1: 06:10.0,pcie=2Right now I don't have a clue, why I can't pass the 82599ES VF through without taking my WAN port down. While I am writing this I had the idea that maybe SophosUTM is not supporting the igbvf and ixgbevf driver?
Can create a bridge on the PF and still passthrough the VF to other VM's, or is it not possible to use the PF whith the VF at the same time?
I will be thankfull for anykind of help.
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