Guest operating system support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides links to third-party articles with information related to guest operating system support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).

Environment

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
VMware ESXi 6.5.x
VMware vCenter Server 7.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.7.x

Resolution

For a list of guest operating systems that are supported with the SR-IOV feature, see:

• Intel Article ID 000006958: Guest Operating System Support for SR-IOV in VMware vSphere* 6.5 U1 and 6.7
• Emulex: Guest Operating System Support for SR-IOV in VMware vSphere with OCe11000 adapters
• Marvell: Supported SR-IOV guest operating systems  
• Broadcom: Supported SR-IOV guest operating systems
• Solarflare: Supported SR-IOV guest operating system