Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm wondering if it's possible to take
advantage of SR-IOV on bare metal hardware without using a
hypervisor. In other words, being able to detect and use SR-IOV
Virtual Functions as network interfaces on the underlying host
(not in a VM).  A lot of SR-IOV capable hardware like the Intel
82599 chips talk specifically about plumbing the VFs into a
hypervisor to be used as a network interface. I'm finding very
little resources on being able to partition up an SR-IOV NIC on
bare metal and I'm wondering if the technology is available yet?
share|improve this question what benefits do you see in doing
this? –  tony roth Apr 20 '12 at 16:07 You can probably do that
but as tony has pointed out, what's the benefit here? you can
already do ip address aliasing and so forth. This is really only
useful for virtualization because you remove the overhead of the
linux software bridge. –  Matt Sep 30 '13 at 2:12 Not only that,
but SR-IOV VF adapters can use RDMA with the VM's. Something not
availa