On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 20:29 -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > <!-- A macvtap passthrough connection (one guest interface per dev) > --> > <network> > <name>red-network</name> > <forward layer='link' mode='passthrough' dev='eth10'/> > <interface dev='eth10'/> > <interface dev='eth11'/> > <interface dev='eth12'/> > <interface dev='eth13'/> > <interface dev='eth14'/> > <interface dev='eth15'/> > <interface dev='eth16'/> > <interface dev='eth17'/> > </forward> > </network> If this example describes a scenario with a SR-IOV card, where eth10 is the physical function and eth11-eth17 are the virtual functions and libvirt can attach a VM to any of the VFs, then I would not list eth10 in the interface pool for passthrough devices. -- Best regards, Gerhard Stenzel, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter GeschÃftsfÃhrung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: BÃblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list