azure: support accelerated networking feature

Azure provides an optional "Accelerated Networking" feature. Enabling
this feature when creating a VM enables SR-IOV and provides the guest
with a virtual function.

Supporting this requires two changes. Firstly, the kernel-modules
package is required as it contains the Mellanox drivers required for the
VF provided to the guest. Secondly, the interface needs to be ignored by
NetworkManager or it'll try and fail to bring up the device and the VM
will be unreachable except by serial console. If this is observed, it's
likely new hardware has been deployed and additional drivers need to be
added to the NetworkManager config.

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/accelerated-networking-overview
for details.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.sh b/config.sh
index 23a7ad2..f4e6a70 100755
--- a/config.sh
+++ b/config.sh
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ cat >> /etc/chrony.conf << EOF
 refclock PHC /dev/ptp_hyperv poll 3 dpoll -2 offset 0
 EOF
 
+# Support Azure's accelerated networking feature; without this the network fails
+# to come up. It may need adjustments for additional drivers in the future.
+cat > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-azure-unmanaged-devices.conf << EOF
+# Ignore SR-IOV interface on Azure, since it's transparently bonded
+# to the synthetic interface
+[keyfile]
+unmanaged-devices=driver:mlx4_core;driver:mlx5_core
+EOF
+
 # Enable the Azure Linux Agent service
 systemctl enable waagent.service
 fi