[Starlingx-discuss] PCI - Passthrough Interafce on VM

[Himanshu Goyal]

Thanks a lot Yong, PCI - Nic has been created.

Regards,
Himanshu Goyal

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:13 PM Hu, Yong <yong.hu at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Himanshu,
>
> If I remember correctly, this network won’t be active until is actually
> being used by the VMs.
>
> So, you can go on.
>
>
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> In addition, the following 2 steps are important, FYI.
>
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> # create a port for PCI-Passthrough
>
> # net-testpci is supported by “providenet-b”
>
> openstack port create --network *net-testpci* --vnic-type
> *direct-physical* pt_port
>
>
>
> # create VM by specifying the network with which the pt_port is attached.
>
> openstack server create --flavor <flavor_name> --image <vm_image_name>
> --nic net-id=*net-testpci* pcipt_vm
>
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>
> regards,
>
> Yong
>
>
>
> *From: *Himanshu Goyal <himanshugoyal500 at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 3:44 PM
> *To: *"Hu, Yong" <yong.hu at intel.com>
> *Cc: *"starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io" <
> starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> *Subject: *Re: [Starlingx-discuss] PCI - Passthrough Interafce on VM
>
>
>
> Thanks Yong,
>
>
>
> PCI Network has been created after given commands,
>
> But In GUI it  shows as status DOWN, tried with compute lock & unlock also.
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> [image: image.png]
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>
>
> Please suggest which logs we can check.
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>
>
> Regards,
>
> Himanshu Goyal
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:58 AM Hu, Yong <yong.hu at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On step #2, “--type” should be “vlan”.
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> On step #3, “-nt”  option was removed for a while, you might use “-c”
> (meaning “The class of the interface”), as follows:
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>
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> $ system host-if-modify -c pci-passthrough -p providernet-b compute-0
> ens513f1
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>
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> Using “Horizon” is another convenient way to perform these operations.
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> *From: *Himanshu Goyal <himanshugoyal500 at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 1:14 PM
> *To: *"starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io" <
> starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> *Subject: *[Starlingx-discuss] PCI - Passthrough Interafce on VM
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I built a setup with controller & compute machine. Able to spawn VM with
> flat network, But I need one PCI-Passthrough interface also on VM.
>
> Please suggest the steps to create vm with PCI-Passthrough NIC.
>
>
>
> Currently I'm following the below steps for creating pci-passthrough
> network:
>
>
>
> Step1: system host-lock compute-0
>
> step2: neutron providernet-create pci_net --type flat
>
> step3: system host-if-modify -m 1500 -n pci_0 -p "pci_net" -nt
> pci-passthrough compute-0 ens513f1
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>
>
> step3 is giving wrong command error, can you please provide me the correct
> commands for the same. or if there is any other way to configure that.
>
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Himanshu Goyal
>
>
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