I'm having issues on creating VF with ubuntu 18.04.
SR-IOV is enabled from BIOS, the NIC are Intel X550, I added
intel_iommu=on to /etc/default/grub and also tried using modprobe.d
by adding options ixgbe max_vfs=8 on /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe.conf
But if I check using lspci | grep -i ethernet I only get the physical cards.
I have also tried:
# echo '7' > /sys/class/net/eno1/device/sriov_numvfs
bash: /sys/class/net/eno1/device/sriov_numvfs: Permission denied
Is the configuration correct?
From dmesg I get:
$ dmesg | grep iov
[ 137.321216] ixgbe 0000:19:00.0 0000:19:00.0 (uninitialized): Failed to enable PCI sriov: -38
[ 138.295030] ixgbe 0000:19:00.1 0000:19:00.1 (uninitialized): Failed to enable PCI sriov: -38
[ 139.263114] ixgbe 0000:1a:00.0 0000:1a:00.0 (uninitialized): Failed to enable PCI sriov: -38
[ 140.227147] ixgbe 0000:1a:00.1 0000:1a:00.1 (uninitialized): Failed to enable PCI sriov: -38
If may be usedfull here you can find the dmesg | grep iommu
and the full dmesg
Many thanks.
Gabriele
Best Answer
I solved this, was a lack of documentation from Dell side. I had to enable also SR-IOV for each NIC, in the Device Settigs from the System Configuration, the global enabler is not enough.