Hi all, looking to run smartos as my hypervisor for my home lab perhaps some can give me a bit of guidence. Basically looking to use bhyve to create a vm and passing through my mellanox card this will handle the pppoe connection and routing. Is this do-able in theory?

openstandards: I think so, but pci passthrough only works on Intel CPUs, so if you have an AMD CPU you wouldn't be able to do that.

You don't need to pass through the physical nic to do a pppoe connection.

but I certainly was able to pass through a USB controller into a bhyve VM on my Intel machine and the Linux VM was able to use it just fine.

bahamat makes a good point too though.

bahamat is correct.

If you're doing something like "I need to do virtualized hardware testing", that's one thing. But if your goal is to just connect to your ISP and make the network *work*, then passing through a device is not the right thing to do.

my mellanox card is unsupported in smartos it's a connectx-3 so was looking to past it into a vm to get it supported that was the plan anyway

then use it within opnsense which has support for it

I've got access to two rj45 on my mobo (link aggregation) connect that to my switcht then use the mellanox 10g which has two qsfp ports use one for a direct connection to my workstation and use the other with a sfp adapter and network module that gets connected to my hg612

I've been using linux for many years now but tried smartos a while a go and love how easy it is to create a zone.

when i do prtdiag it lists my mellanox in use, that means i haven't black listed?

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