from--https://vswitchzero.com/2019/06/19/an-in-depth-look-at-sr-iov-nic-passthrough/ SR-IOV or “Single Root I/O Virtualization” is a very interesting feature that can provide virtual machines shared access to physical network cards installed in the hypervisor. This may sound a lot like what a virtual NIC and a vSwitch does, but the feature works very similarly to PCI passt…

from--https://serverfault.com/questions/805992/is-vlan-tagging-on-guest-allowed-in-sr-iov-on-kvm   Ask Question Asked 6 years, 11 months ago Modified 6 years, 11 months ago Viewed 8k times 2 I am using KVM on Centos 7. I have created a VM with SR-IOV VFs to pass traffic. I notice that I am unable to pass traffic when I tag the interface inside the VM. I have read thro…

from--http://khmel.org/proxmox-debian-10-kvm-enabling-sr-iov-for-mellanox-infiniband-cards.html   Posted on Mon 10 May 2021 There are 2 differences in configuration on: AMD or Intel based systems. ConnectX-3 or ConnectX-6 Mellanox cards. This example uses: Proxmox VE 6.4 (iso file proxmox-ve_6.4-1.iso) Mellanox driver v.4.9 (file MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-3.1.5.0-debian10.0…