Unable to enable VFs on SR-IOV nic as writting to sriov_numvfs returns "Permission denied"

Issue

• We can't activate SR-IOV for a VM on a server with RHEL 8 as we get the following errors:

[root@localhost ~]# echo '32' > /sys/class/net/eno1/device/sriov_numvfs 
-bash: /sys/class/net/eno1/device/sriov_numvfs: Permission denied
[root@localhost ~]# echo '32' > /sys/class/net/eno2/device/sriov_numvfs
-bash: /sys/class/net/eno2/device/sriov_numvfs: Permission denied
[root@localhost ~]# echo '32' > /sys/class/net/ens3f0/device/sriov_numvfs
-bash: /sys/class/net/ens3f0/device/sriov_numvfs: Permission denied
[root@localhost ~]# echo '32' > /sys/class/net/ens3f1/device/sriov_numvfs
-bash: /sys/class/net/ens3f1/device/sriov_numvfs: Permission denied

• This was working on RHEL 7