The VM PCI passthrough fails with "Unable to configure VF because the PF is not online"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The VM PCI passthrough fails with following message

libvirtError: internal error: Unable to configure VF 1 of PF 'eth1' because the PF is not online. Please change host network config to put the PF online.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • KVM

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