PIO Not Supported in KVM/ESXi - PIO Not Supported in KVM/ESXi - UG1586

Onload User Guide (UG1586)

Document ID
UG1586
Release Date
2026-01-22
Revision
1.4 English

Due to limitations with write-combine mapping in a virtual guest environment, PIO is not currently supported for Onload applications running in a virtual machine in KVM or ESXi.

Users should ensure that EF_PIO is set to 0 for all Onload stacks running in VMs.