Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card

2018-11-16 Thread taii...@gmx.com
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card

2018-10-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
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, "taii...@gmx.com" wrote: >LSI/Broadcom lists it in their marketing literature, the idea that you

[gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card

2018-10-16 Thread taii...@gmx.com
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marketing literature, the idea that you can assign drives to a VF and then that VF to a VM however it turns out they do not publish the code that makes it work.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