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  1. Bug #1650058
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Comment 0 for bug 1650058

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Joshua R. Poulson (jrp) wrote : Please include Mellanox OFED drivers in Azure kernel and image

In order to have the correct VF driver to support SR-IOV in Azure, the Mellanox OFED distribution needs to be included in the kernel and the image. Mellanox's drivers are not upstream, but they are available from here:

https://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers&ssn=3nnhohirh5htv6dnp1uk7tf487

While this configuration is not explicitly listed as supported in the release notes, Microsoft and Mellanox engineers are working on the corresponding Windows Server 216 PF driver to support this VF driver in operation in Ubuntu guests.

I file file a corresponding rebase request to pick up the PCI passthrough and other SR-IOV work done for the Hyper-V capabilities in the upstream 4.9 kernel.

Only 64-bit support for Ubuntu 16.04's HWE kernel is needed.