KVM guest fails to start with the following message "internal error missing IFLA_VF_INFO in netlink response" when SR-IOV devices are attached to a guest
Issue
- KVM guest fails to start with the following message "internal error missing IFLA_VF_INFO in netlink response" when SR-IOV devices are attached to the guest
Error message seen in libvirtd logs
2013-04-17 13:52:45.695+0000: 6236: error : virNetDevParseVfConfig:1517 : internal error missing IFLA_VF_INFO in netlink response
2013-04-17 13:52:45.700+0000: 6236: error : virFileReadAll:457 : Failed to open file '/var/run/libvirt/qemu/eth1_vf0': No such file or directory
2013-04-17 13:52:45.703+0000: 6236: error : virFileReadAll:457 : Failed to open file '/var/run/libvirt/qemu/eth1_vf1': No such file or directory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 4 KVM Host
- libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.3
- Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
- ixgbe driver parameter
options ixgbe max_vfs=63,63is used - Third party/upstream ixgbe driver version 3.13.10 is used
- Guest also has 18 other Virtual NIC'S attached to it
- Devices are attached via interface element and of the type='hostdev'
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