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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:37:45
Message-Id: F2A8ED6C-23B4-41DE-A343-6AFCF1BCA125@antarean.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card by "Taiidan@gmx.com"
1 The SAS2008 is quite old. Are you sure it actually supports this?
2 I pass the entire HBA to a single VM to act as SAN. Hardly any VM uses a full disk.
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5 Joost
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7 On October 17, 2018 5:04:32 AM UTC, "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com> wrote:
8 >LSI/Broadcom lists it in their marketing literature, the idea that you
9 >can assign drives to a VF and then that VF to a VM however it turns out
10 >they do not publish the code that makes it work.
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12 >I was able to find some for MPT3 SAS3008 on an old repo but I can't
13 >find
14 >any for MPT2 for SAS2008 and I was wondering if anyone has it or knows
15 >more information about this very useful system.
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18 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com>