Configure virtual machines to use SR-IOV only when supported by the guest operating system

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Property	Details
Operating System	Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature	Hyper-V
Severity	Warning
Category	Configuration

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Issue

One or more virtual machines are configured to use single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), but the guest operating system does not support SR-IOV

Impact

SR-IOV virtual functions will not be allocated to the following virtual machines:

<list of virtual machines>

Resolution

Disable SR-IOV on all virtual machines that run guest operating systems which do not support SR-IOV.

SR-IOV is supported only in some 64-bit Windows guests. For details, see Hyper-V feature compatibility by generation and guest.