ixgbe and ixgbevf drivers are not working in virtualization environment

[Rémi Pauchet]

Hi,

Unfortunately not:

ix0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,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
	inet 172.16.255.254 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.16.255.255
	inet6 fe80::2e0:edff:fe1c:994e%ix0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: Ethernet autoselect
	status: no carrier
ix1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,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:99:4f
	inet 172.17.255.254 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.17.255.255
	inet6 fe80::2e0:edff:fe1c:994f%ix1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: Ethernet autoselect
	status: no carrier

Regards,
Rémi

Le 11 oct. 2012 à 18:25, Jack Vogel a écrit :

> 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
> 
> 
>