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Driver FeaturesRev 2.1-1.0.6

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Step 2. Change the related interface (in the example below bridge0 is created over eth5).

Step 3. Restart the service network.

Step 4. Attach a virtual NIC to VM.

4.13.4 Assigning a Virtual Function to a Virtual Machine

This section will describe a mechanism for adding a SR-IOV VF to a Virtual Machine.

4.13.4.1 Assigning the SR-IOV Virtual Function to the Red Hat KVM VM Server

Step 1. Run the virt-manager.

Step 2. Double click on the virtual machine and open its Properties.

Step 3. Go to Details->Add hardware ->PCI host device.

DEVICE=eth5

BOOTPROTO=none

STARTMODE=on

HWADDR=00:02:c9:2e:66:52

TYPE=Ethernet

NM_CONTROLLED=no

ONBOOT=yes

BRIDGE=bridge0

ifconfig -a

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eth6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:E7:77:99

inet addr:13.195.15.5 Bcast:13.195.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0

inet6 addr: fe80::5054:ff:fee7:7799/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:22440 (21.9 KiB) TX bytes:19232 (18.7 KiB)

Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa000

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