[vfio-users] Using VFIO on OpenStack

Eddie Yen missile0407 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 01:04:54 UTC 2015


So for now it still have problems on OpenStack.
As I known, OpenStack using nova as VMM, and it based on libvirt.
If we want to use VFIO on OpenStack, not only QEMU, but also need to
re-compile nova to compatible VFIO and Hyper-V functions.
Seem like it will be a huge works.

2015-11-06 12:43 GMT+08:00 Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>:

>
> On Nov 6, 2015 4:55 AM, "Eddie Yen" <missile0407 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > For now, I'm very interested on OpenStack, which is cloud VM service.
> > Also I saw there is few people using VFIO on OpenStack and succeeded.
> >
> > I know that few years ago, OpenStack can't support VFIO, and OpenStack
> supported device assigned, but using previous KVM module, so it cannot
> assign into VM.
> > But seems like it can right now.
> > Does anyone tried and success? And how to build that?
> >
> I remember people trying to do it like half a year ago. That day there
> were some permission problems.
> Theoretically, it is based on libvirt, so it should work very alike to it.
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