[vbox-dev] FW: Re: [VBox-users] Predictable PCI bus addresses for network interfaces?
Kent R. Spillner
kspillner at acm.org
Wed Jul 17 11:39:11 PDT 2013
> Of course. The PCI bus addresses for each PCI device in VirtualBox are
> 100% deterministic, and only switching to a different chipset type
> (which we don't encourage, as ICH9 is marked as experimental) will
> select a different (again 100% deterministic) mapping.
Great, thank you! I really appreciate this information, especially the pointer to the source. :)
> No idea how you came to the conclusion that the first NIC is bus 0/dev
> 17, as this is what the 6th NIC will get. The fist NIC is bus 0/dev 3,
> unless someone knows the magic tricks to enable compatibility with
> VMware, which puts its first NIC at bus 0/dev 11.
Perhaps I'm reading the PCI address wrong? I just confirmed this on two separate Linux guests both using the PIIX3 chipset, but with only a single network adapter:
# lspci | grep Ethernet
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 02)
That bus address is in hex, correct? So I read that as "bus 0 dev 17 function 0." I don't believe I performed any magic tricks to enable VMware compat, but I am running the stock VirtualBox 4.2.16 packages for Arch (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox/).
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