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Step 4. Attach a virtual NIC to VM.
Step 5. Add the MAC 52:54:00:E7:77:99 to the /sys/class/net/eth5/fdb table on HV.
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.
ifconfig -a
…
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
…
Before:
cat /sys/class/net/eth5/fdb
33:33:00:00:02:02
33:33:ff:2e:66:52
01:00:5e:00:00:01
33:33:00:00:00:01
Do:
echo "+52:54:00:E7:77:99" > /sys/class/net/eth5/fdb
After:
cat /sys/class/net/eth5/fdb
52:54:00:e7:77:99
33:33:00:00:02:02
33:33:ff:2e:66:52
01:00:5e:00:00:01
33:33:00:00:00:01…