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Follow the steps needed to create a guest environment and assign VF device to VM by using QEMU.
- Unbind the device from UIO driver:
$./dpdk-devbind.py -u <bdf>
- Install vfio-pci module.
$modprobe vfio-pci
- Bind the device to vfio-pci.
- In case the device is binded to ifc_uio, unbind with the following command:
$ echo "<bdf>" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/\ <bdf>/driver/unbind
For example:echo "0000:01:00.0" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/\ 0000\:01\:00.0/driver/unbind
- Bind the device to vfio-pci.
$ echo <bdf> > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind
For example:echo "0000:01:00.1" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind
- In case the device is binded to ifc_uio, unbind with the following command:
- Use the following parameters to start the Guest VM (on Intel® machines, use qemu version 3.0.0-rc0). The minimum 8 GB memory needs to be allocated to VM.
$ qemu-3.0.0-rc0/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64\ -smp 2 -m 8192M -boot c -machine q35,kernel-irqchip=split -cpu host\ -enable-kvm -nographic -L /root/qemu-3.0.0-rc0/pc-bios -name offload1\ -hda <path_to_qcow2_file> -device vfio-pci,host=<bdf> -netdev\ type=tap,id=net6551,script=no,downscript=no,vhost=on,ifname=net6551\ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net6551 -device intel-iommu,intremap=on,\ caching-mode=on -serial telnet::5551,server,nowait -object memory-backend-file,\ id=mem,size=8192M,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem\ -mem-prealloc -monitor telnet::3331,server,nowait&
Note:- On AMD machines, the parameter -device intel-iommu,intremap=on,caching-mode=on is not required.
- If multiple devices are in the same group, check for ACS enablement in root port and bridge.
- Below are the Host and Guest VM configurations used for verification:
Table 22. Host System Configuration Host System Configuration Details Operating System CentOS Linux release 7.8 Linux Kernel 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.28.x86_64 CPU Cores 96 RAM 128 GB (64 GB on single NUMA) Hypervisor KVM Qemu Version QEMU version 3.0.0-rc0 Table 23. Guest System Configuration Guest System Configuration Details Operating System CentOS Linux release 7.8 Linux Kernel 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.28.x86_64 CPU Cores 2 RAM 8 GB