[one-dev] KVM SR-IOV Add-on

[Javier Fontan]

The repository is created with a template README and a LICENSE file:

https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-kvm-sr-iov

Tell me if you find something wrong, need any help or want more
commiters added to it.

Cheers

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org> wrote:
> I'm about to create the repo. I'll let you know when it is ready.
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, David Macleod <dmacleod at csir.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi Javier
>>
>> The name is fine. My Github user name is dmacleod.
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>>>>> Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org> 2013/10/25 12:43 PM >>>
>>
>> Just two comments.
>>
>> The repositories are named "addon-name-of-the-addon". I think yours
>> could be named "addon-kvm-sr-iov". Are you ok with it? Any other idea?
>>
>> I am not able to find your user in github by email. Can you give me
>> the github user name?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:32 PM, David Macleod <dmacleod at csir.co.za> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The KVM SR-IOV driver enables support for SR-IOV devices, including
>>> Infiniband, in KVM virtual machines. The add-on has been developed for HPC
>>> orientated Clouds and includes a number of VM  performance enhancements.
>>>
>>> The driver supports two modes for passing SR-IOV devices into VMs, generic
>>> and mlnx_ofed2. The generic mode is cable of passing any SR-IOV device
>>> into
>>> VMs, not limited to network devices.
>>>
>>> The mlnx_ofed2 mode is tuned to pass IP information into VMs via GUIDs and
>>> also supports IB network isolation though a modification to the ovswitch
>>> VNM
>>> driver and IB partitions.
>>>
>>> A HPC mode option can also be enabled to improve CPU and memory
>>> performance
>>> of the VM by passing though the exact CPU model and detecting and
>>> respecting
>>> NUMA nodes.
>>>
>>> For more information and limitations visit:
>>> http://wiki.chpc.ac.za/acelab:opennebula_sr-iov_vmm_driver
>>>
>>> Requested repo name: KVM SR-IOV Driver
>>> Github user: dmacleod at csir.co.za
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> David
>>>
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Javier Fontán Muiños
Developer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @OpenNebula | github.com/jfontan