[ovs-discuss] SR-IOV with Open vSwitch

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Mar 30 16:03:20 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 06:39:24AM +0200, Advith Nagappa wrote:
> Has anyone used SR-IOV with Open vSwitch(in a guest)?
> 
> My understanding is that SR-IOV is hypervisor(host) by/pass, Hence using
> OVS at that level would not make sense..
> 
> So I tried deploying OVS in an SR-IOV enabled guest, and here is what I
> observed..

It doesn't really make sense to use SR-IOV with OVS.


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