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If an SRIOV PF is offline, the kernel won't complain if you set the mac address and vlan tag for a VF via this PF, and it will even let you assign the VF to a guest using PCI device assignment or macvtap passthrough. But in this case (the PF isn't online), the device won't be usable in the guest. Silently setting the PF online would solve the connectivity problem, but as pointed out by Dan Berrange, when an interface is set online with no associated config, the kernel will by default turn on IPv6 autoconf, which could create unexpected security problems for the host. For this reason, this patch instead logs an error and fails the operation. This resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893738 Originally filed against RHEL6, but present in every version of libvirt until today.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>