> On 23.01.2016, at 22:27, Jonathon Sisson <open...@j3z.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:19:29PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote: >> No, you have to *enable* SR-IOV in the image. >> >> Machines with the Intel NIC will not show any netfront in the device list >> via XenStore (just try Ubuntu). >> >> Reyk > > That's correct, but I think what was being pointed out is that > an instance with SRIOV enabled cannot have it *disabled* (i.e. > to switch back to xnf NICs). I was able to get xnf operational > on a c3.large (enhanced networking-capable) by creating an instance > with CentOS and swapping the root volume out. Any AMI constructed > on Amazon Linux or Ubuntu will have enhanced networking enabled > by default, whereas CentOS doesn't appear to have it enabled (unless > you manually enable it).
Ah, OK. I recommend to upload new images or to use my public openbsd images to bootstrap new AMIs. The "dd from Linux" trick is just a hack if you don't want to install the aws and ec2 cli tools - but we have ports now. Reyk
