Re: Is PCI passthrough definitely needed for Ntopng Edge on KVM?

Victor 
the problem is that when using virtual adapters you in essence use a switch and thus we cannot implement the bump in the wire as the collision domain will prevent it from working, So yes, you need PCIe passthrough

Regards Luca

> On 18 Nov 2018, at 20:33, Victor Hooi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does Ntopng edge always need PCI passthrough on network cards?
> 
> I'm thinking of setting up a Proxmox 5.2 system, running ntopng Edge in a KVM virtual-machine.
> 
> The physical machine has four on-board Ethernet ports, so I was going to pass through two of these to act inline.
> 
> However, I see that https://www.ntop.org/guides/nedge/get_started.html#running-into-a-vm <https://www.ntop.org/guides/nedge/get_started.html#running-into-a-vm> mentions that you must enable PCI passthrough.
> 
> Is this for performance reasons? Or there's some other reasons for it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Victor
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