I'm wondering if it's possible to take advantage of SR-IOV on bare metal hardware without using a hypervisor. In other words, being able to detect and use SR-IOV Virtual Functions as network interfaces on the underlying host (not in a VM).
A lot of SR-IOV capable hardware like the Intel 82599 chips talk specifically about plumbing the VFs into a hypervisor to be used as a network interface. I'm finding very little resources on being able to partition up an SR-IOV NIC on bare metal and I'm wondering if the technology is available yet?
Thanks,
-Luke