Controlling PCI Slot order in Proxmox 5.4

[dcsapak]

But how does that work for the virtio-net-pci ? ie. not the real/physicals

ok yes, that is not possible with the normal config values, there you have to uses the 'args' line (which is of course more work since the network setup is not done and you'd have to do it yourself, etc.)
IMHO the "real" solution is to go to the provider of the appliance and request support for proxmox ve. It might not do anything in the short term, but if enough users complain, maybe they'll make their appliances compatible

i personally doubt hat we completely rewrite/rethink our pci address assignment for this as it's seldom necessary

don't get me wrong, i can see why you'd need it, so if you want, you can open a feature request on https://bugzilla.proxmox.com with your requirements + use case, maybe someone else on our team has a better idea how to do that

 

[hevisko]

well...

IMHO the "real" solution is to go to the provider of the appliance and request support for proxmox ve

Well..... *I* am the provider of the appliance, and I'm building it based on making things easier/beterer for VPP (which is next to be on the PVE itself too =)

there you have to uses the 'args' line (which is of course more work since the network setup is not done and you'd have to do it yourself, etc.)

happy with doing it myself, just that suddenly the `args:` line is wrapping around the screen 4 times already and then I have a challenge or three with not tripping over PVE's assignment itself too... ie. telling PVE to reserve some for me

i personally doubt hat we completely rewrite/rethink our pci address assignment for this as it's seldom necessary

having a way to reserve some PCI ports will also help for a VM where I assign SRIOV functions and be able to have them in expected places for things like `ifrename/iftab`. I've seen the cases where adding a single extra interface, the others suddenly jumped up a couple of PCIe slots/roots which was counter intuitive,

don't get me wrong, i can see why you'd need it, so if you want, you can open a feature request on https://bugzilla.proxmox.com with your requirements + use case, maybe someone else on our team has a better idea how to do that

yeah, will do once I understand all the intricacies myself.