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Description: Incus supports two different kinds of network types for InfiniBand devices: physical: Passes a physical device from the host through to the instance. The targeted device will vanish from the host a...

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# Type: `infiniband`

Note

The `infiniband` device type is supported for both containers and VMs. It supports hotplugging only for containers, not for VMs.

Incus supports two different kinds of network types for InfiniBand devices:

- `physical`: Passes a physical device from the host through to the instance. The targeted device will vanish from the host and appear in the instance.

- `sriov`: Passes a virtual function of an SR-IOV-enabled physical network device into the instance.

  Note

  InfiniBand devices support SR-IOV, but in contrast to other SR-IOV-enabled devices, InfiniBand does not support dynamic device creation in SR-IOV mode. Therefore, you must pre-configure the number of virtual functions by configuring the corresponding kernel module.

To create a `physical` `infiniband` device, use the following command:

    incus config device add <instance_name> <device_name> infiniband nictype=physical parent=<device>

To create an `sriov` `infiniband` device, use the following command:

    incus config device add <instance_name> <device_name> infiniband nictype=sriov parent=<sriov_enabled_device>

## Device options

`infiniband` devices have the following device options:

`hwaddr`

The MAC address of the new interface (can be either the full 20-byte variant or the short 8-byte variant, which will only modify the last 8 bytes of the parent device)

Key: | `hwaddr`
Type: | string
Default: | randomly assigned
Required: | no

`mtu`

The MTU of the new interface

Key: | `mtu`
Type: | integer
Default: | parent MTU
Required: | no

`name`

The name of the interface inside the instance

Key: | `name`
Type: | string
Default: | kernel assigned
Required: | no

`nictype`

The device type (one of `physical` or `sriov`)

Key: | `nictype`
Type: | string
Required: | yes

`parent`

The name of the interface inside the instance

Key: | `parent`
Type: | string
Default: | kernel assigned
Required: | no