* [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card @ 2018-10-17 5:04 Taiidan 2018-10-17 14:37 ` J. Roeleveld 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Taiidan @ 2018-10-17 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user LSI/Broadcom lists it in their marketing literature, the idea that you can assign drives to a VF and then that VF to a VM however it turns out they do not publish the code that makes it work. I was able to find some for MPT3 SAS3008 on an old repo but I can't find any for MPT2 for SAS2008 and I was wondering if anyone has it or knows more information about this very useful system. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card 2018-10-17 5:04 [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card Taiidan @ 2018-10-17 14:37 ` J. Roeleveld 2018-11-17 2:15 ` Taiidan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: J. Roeleveld @ 2018-10-17 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 723 bytes --] The SAS2008 is quite old. Are you sure it actually supports this? I pass the entire HBA to a single VM to act as SAN. Hardly any VM uses a full disk. -- Joost On October 17, 2018 5:04:32 AM UTC, "Taiidan@gmx.com" <Taiidan@gmx.com> wrote: >LSI/Broadcom lists it in their marketing literature, the idea that you >can assign drives to a VF and then that VF to a VM however it turns out >they do not publish the code that makes it work. > >I was able to find some for MPT3 SAS3008 on an old repo but I can't >find >any for MPT2 for SAS2008 and I was wondering if anyone has it or knows >more information about this very useful system. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 992 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card 2018-10-17 14:37 ` J. Roeleveld @ 2018-11-17 2:15 ` Taiidan 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Taiidan @ 2018-11-17 2:15 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user On 10/17/2018 10:37 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > The SAS2008 is quite old. Are you sure it actually supports this? It does yes, lspci reports SR-IOV support and the marketing literature touts it along with the SAS 2308 and 3008 etc. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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