Hi Chenjie, Working scenario-1: Note:Used existing network(public-net0) mapped with physnet0(vlan) for instance creation. 1. Configure helm chart in nova (controller-0) echo '8' > /sys/class/net/eno1/device/sriov_numvfs system helm-override-update stx-openstack nova openstack --values nova-overrides.yaml system helm-override-show stx-openstack nova openstack system application-list 2. Instance creation used pci passthrough alias set that flavor mkdir -p /home/sysadmin/.ssh/ vi /home/sysadmin/.ssh/id_rsa openstack keypair create key1 --private-key /home/sysadmin/.ssh/id_rsa openstack security group create security1 openstack security group rule create --ingress --protocol icmp --remote-ip 0.0.0.0/0 security1 openstack security group rule create --ingress --protocol tcp --remote-ip 0.0.0.0/0 security1 openstack security group rule create --ingress --protocol udp --remote-ip 0.0.0.0/0 security1 openstack flavor create --ram 4096 --disk 100 --vcpus 2 m1.medium.pci_passthrough openstack flavor set --property "pci_passthrough:alias"="intel-X722-pf:1" m1.medium.pci_passthrough openstack image create --file xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img --disk-format qcow2 --public ${NET}-image openstack server create --image ${NET}-image --flavor m1.medium.pci_passthrough --network public-net0 --security-group security1 --key-name key1 ${NET}-vm0 3. No error, Instance is created successfully with active state. Note: To ssh the VM, getting No route to host Error. controller-0:~/standard_script$ openstack network list | cb438bc0-0b9e-44bd-9639-4caf62a8bd8b | public-net0 | 335a7149-a4c3-45df-bf9d-746cb7cf7ab3 | compute-1:~$ sudo ip netns qdhcp-cb438bc0-0b9e-44bd-9639-4caf62a8bd8b (id: 4) compute-1:~$ sudo ip netns exec qdhcp-cb438bc0-0b9e-44bd-9639-4caf62a8bd8b bash compute-1:/home/sysadmin# ssh -i /home/sysadmin/.ssh/id_rsa ubuntu@192.168.101.234 ssh: connect to host 192.168.101.234 port 22: No route to host Failure scenario-2: 1. Configure PCI-passthrough interface DATA0IF=eno1 PHYSNET2='physnet2' system datanetwork-add $PHYSNET2 vlan system host-if-modify -m 1500 -n pcipass -c pci-passthrough ${COMPUTE} ${SRIOVIFUUID} system interface-datanetwork-assign ${COMPUTE} pcipass ${PHYSNET2} 2. Update nova helm chart system helm-override-update stx-openstack nova openstack --values nova-overrides.yaml system application-apply stx-openstack system application-list 3. Create network with(physnet2) pci-pt configured interface and instance with use flavor of pci passthrough alias set openstack network create ${NET}-net --mtu 1500 --provider-network-type vlan --provider-physical-network $PHYSNET2 openstack subnet create --network ${NET}-net --subnet-range 192.168.15.0/24 --ip-version 4 --dhcp ${NET}-subnet openstack flavor create --ram 4096 --disk 100 --vcpus 2 m1.medium.pci_passthrough openstack flavor set --property "pci_passthrough:alias"="intel-X722-pf:1" m1.medium.pci_passthrough openstack image create --file xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img --disk-format qcow2 --public ${NET}-image openstack server create --image ${NET}-image --flavor m1.medium.pci_passthrough --network public-net0 --security-group security1 --key-name key1 ${NET}-vm0 4. Instance created with ERROR status So please let me know, Do we need to configure interface with (eno1)pci-pt or not ? Which above scenario to use for pci-pt test? Because physnet0(assigned data0) mapped to public-net0 using instance creation working as expected.