ixgbe and ixgbevf drivers are not working in virtualization environment

[Jack Vogel]

The ixgbe device will not get link until you have run init, so assign it an
address or just do an ifconfig up.

I have never used the driver using a passthru type setup but I believe its
been done successfully if
memory serves.

Jack


On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Rémi Pauchet <remi.pauchet at netasq.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use the ixgbe (10Gb) driver in a FreeBSD virtual machine on
> an esxi 5 using DirectPath (PCI Passthrough) and the card is detected, but
> I can't get a link (status: no carrier)
>
> ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.3.11> mem
> 0xd2420000-0xd243ffff,0xd2400000-0xd2403fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3
>
> ix0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>
> options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
>         ether 00:e0:ed:1c:99:4e
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>
> I have also tested with XenServer 6, using SR-IOV (ixgbevf driver) with
> the same result: the driver is loading, but no link detected.
>
> In both case (VMWare DirectPath and XenServer SR-IOV), I tested Linux with
> success.
>
>
> The card is an Intel 82599EB, the motherboard is an Intel X58 (supermicro
> X8ST3) with a Xeon W3680 and I've tested FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0
>
> I've found a forum thread with the same issue:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29855 and no answer :)
>
>
> Please find in attachment the dmesg (boot -v) with the ix driver compiled
> with DEBUG flags using vmware.
>
>
> Can anyone provide feedback about this issue ?
>
> Regards,
> Rémi Pauchet
>
>
>