Bug #11809
openSupport for P4510, P4600 NVMe passthrough on ESXi 6.7
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Description
Intel NVMe disks P4510 and P4600 do not work when using ESXi passthrough.
They will immediately marked as faulty.
This may caused by the deactivation of MSI-X as described in this [[https://www.illumos.org/issues/9566]]
Is there any chance to get this devices working? Is it possible to get an alternative driver with MSI-X enabled for testing?
Unfortunately, i can not compile a driver myself.
Related issues
Updated by Andy Fiddaman over 3 years ago
- Related to Bug #9566: Disabled MSI-X for NVMe passthrough on ESXi must be reverted because VMware fixed the bug on their end added
Updated by Andy Fiddaman over 3 years ago
- Is duplicate of Bug #9566: Disabled MSI-X for NVMe passthrough on ESXi must be reverted because VMware fixed the bug on their end added
Updated by Andy Fiddaman over 3 years ago
I'll build a test driver for OmniOS bloody.
Updated by Juergen Kuhn over 3 years ago
Andy Fiddaman wrote:
Many thanks for building the test driver.
I have done some tests in the past few days.
The NVMe drive works partially, but there is still the following problem. Parts of OmniOS hang when a normal boot(shut down and start again.) of the OmniOS-VM is performed. The NVMe drive will not recognized. diskinfo or format commands freeze.
When this behavior occurs, I need to reset the VM. Then the NVMe drive will detected.
Updated by Juergen Kuhn over 3 years ago
Juergen Kuhn wrote:
Andy Fiddaman wrote:
Many thanks for building the test driver.
I have done some tests in the past few days.
The NVMe drive works partially, but there is still the following problem. Parts of OmniOS hang when a normal boot(shut down and start again.) of the OmniOS-VM is performed. The NVMe drive will not recognized. diskinfo or format commands freeze.
When this behavior occurs, I need to reset the VM. Then the NVMe drive will detected.
Frank M. describes exactly the behavior which I can determine now.
https://omniosce.org/ml-archive/2016-June/007054.html
Apparently the problems with the NVMe driver exists for a long time and there will probably never be solution for it.
Updated by Frank M. Effemmess about 3 years ago
Any news here?
BTW, intel P900 and P905 are also affected.