Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

[R0b0t1]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:52 PM, Taiidan@×××.com <Taiidan@×××.com> wrote:
> I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for
> SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it.
>
> There is no info on the internet about this not even for their newer
> controllers where there is a lot of advertising about SR-IOV.
>
> The idea is that you can assign a RAID array, individual hard drive, etc to
> a VF which is then assigned to a VM via IOMMU providing better almost native
> performance vs emulated disks.
>
> Thanks!
>

If it supports SR-IOV you can pass it to a guest with VFIO. If it did
not support SR-IOV it would not support VFIO.

Cheers,
     R0b0t1