NVIDIA® MLNX_OFED Documentation Rev 5.2-2.2.3.0
v5.17

SR-IOV Related Issues

Issue

Cause

Solution

When assigning a VF to a VM the following message is reported on the screen:

PCI-assgine: error: requires KVM support

SR-IOV and virtualization are not enabled in the BIOS.

  1. Verify they are both enabled in the BIOS

  2. Add to the GRUB configuration file to the following kernel parameter: "intel_immun=on" (see “Setting Up SR-IOV” section).

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