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VM-to-VM communication Failed even using VFs from the same PF

idata
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Hi,

I'm following the Figure 16 of the Whitepaper: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/10-gigabit-network-adapters/config-qos-with-flexible-port-partitioning.html Configuring QoS Features with Intel* Flexible Port Partitioning

[root@syst-intel-linux-01 ~]# ip link show

13: eth1: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000

link/ether 00:1b:21:a2:73:8c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

vf 0 MAC 0a:a2:f3:e4:f6:49

vf 1 MAC 62:21:3d:b6:46:63

I assigned eth1.vf0 to VM1 and eth1.vf1 to VM2.

In VM1, I have:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0A:A2:F3:E4:F6:49 inet addr:192.1.1.1 Bcast:192.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

In VM2, I have:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 62:21:3D:B6:46:63 inet addr:192.1.1.2 Bcast:192.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

In Dom0,

[root@syst-intel-linux-01 ~]# ip link set eth1 vf 0 vlan 1234

[root@syst-intel-linux-01 ~]# ip link set eth1 vf 1 vlan 1234

I tried pinging from 192.1.1.1 in VM1 to 192.1.1.2 in VM2. But NO success.

"tcpdump" on eth0@VM1 showed:

...

13:21:31.596049 ARP, Request who-has 192.1.1.2 tell 192.1.1.1, length 28

...

"tcpdump" on eth0@VM2 showed nothing was received.

Fedora14 was used for both Dom0 and VMs. The Hypervisor was KVM.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

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Patrick_K_Intel1
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I will take a look at this and discuss it with my experts. Be back soon.

- Patrick

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idata
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I got it working, after upgrading the OS from Fedora 14 to Fedora 17.

Thanks all the same.

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Patrick_K_Intel1
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Yup, that would do it :-)

Thanx for posting to our site, come back anytime!

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