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I've been searching the archives and not yet managed to find anything on the subject, so I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.</div>
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I am using nodes with Intel 10G network cards. The driver for these cards has been tweaked to complain (and fail to start the interface) if a non-Intel approved optical transceiver is in use. It's easy to override with the following options:</div>
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ixgbe.allow_unsupported_sfp=1</div>
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The usual ways of doing this are either to place it on the kernel command line at boot time, or in /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe.conf where it would read "options ixgbe allow_unsupported_sfp=1". Unfortunately I have no idea how to make either of these permanent on
an oVirt node.</div>
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I'm running the ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.el6.iso image. It has an /etc/modprobe.d directory where changes do not persist across reboots. It also has /config/etc where I've added modprobe.d and modprobe.d/ixgbe.conf. By adding this file to /config/files,
I've been able to make it appear in /etc/modprobe.d at boot time. This has no effect. It appears to take place after the ixgbe driver has already been started. If I "rmmod ixgbe" and "modprobe ixgbe" manually, it works fine.</div>
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So the general question is, how do I make configuration changes which persist across reboots? Surely others have run into the same situation when trying to support specific devices.</div>
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