Hyper-V installation (working)

marcellinus

Hi All

I'm just searching around for a home/lab router for the init7 25gBit Internet connection.

Since my home-lab is on Hyper-V, I saw it is not supported, I still wanted to give it a try and got it working. Just to share if someone else like to try that out.

Major problem is, AFAIK, that the Network Cards are not supported.

I am running my test Hyper-V on a HPE DL20 GEN10.

Using poweshell, I disconnected the Intel i350 dual port Ethernet Adapter from the host and reassigned to the VM, hint for commands and tutorials on how to do this: "VMAssignableDevice".

Here is what I did (put it together later, so I hope no typos or nothing missed)

$pnpdevs = Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$_.Present -eq $true} | Where-Object {$_.Class -eq "Net" -and $_.Manufacturer -eq "Intel"}
$pnpdevs
//verify your search above, might be different for any other system
$pnpdevs | Disable-PnpDevice
$locationpath0 = ($pnpdevs[0] | Get-PnpDeviceProperty DEVPKEY_Device_LocationPaths).data[0]
$locationpath1 = ($pnpdevs[1] | Get-PnpDeviceProperty DEVPKEY_Device_LocationPaths).data[0]
Dismount-VmHostAssignableDevice -locationpath $locationpath0 -force
Dismount-VmHostAssignableDevice -locationpath $locationpath1 -force
//set your VM to stop on host shutdown
Add-VMAssignableDevice -LocationPath $locationpath0 -VMName tnsr
Add-VMAssignableDevice -LocationPath $locationpath1 -VMName tnsr
//start VM

This worked like a charm, pushed a test stream though at max bandwidth with no issued for a few hours.

However, I think I still need to stop my testing here since DHCPv6 and RA/Delegation are not yet supported - and I like to keep my quite well working ipv6 setup alive.

I did not test but "assume" that delegating a Mellanox or Intel SFP28 card should also work similarly. Would be still great to see if anyone else could get this flying ;-)

Thought it might be usefull :-)

Happy Bandwidth!