Does the Broadcom bnx2x driver support SR-IOV?

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Issue

  • Does the Broadcom bnx2x 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver support SR-IOV?
  • How do I pass a Virtual Function from my Broadcom NetXtreme II 10GbE NIC Physical Function to a KVM virtual guest machine?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Broadcom NetXtreme II 10GbE NIC using bnx2x driver
  • Virtualization supporting SR-IOV such as KVM

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