Packer Azure Image accelerated networking enabled

[ghost]

This issue was originally opened by @rajeeshkumarkk as hashicorp/packer#8381. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Feature Description: I am not sure if the latest version of Packer is capable of building an Azure image with accelerated networking enabled. When I build Azure image and launch an Azure VM from the custom image it says "The selected image does not support accelerated networking.

I couldn't find a Optional builder to specify accelerated networking true in Packer template. Could you please help me with this ?

A written overview of the feature.: Accelerated networking enables single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) to a VM, greatly improving its networking performance. This high-performance path bypasses the host from the datapath, reducing latency, jitter, and CPU utilization, for use with the most demanding network workloads on supported VM types. Packer needs to have a optional builder parameters to enable the accelerated networking for the image it is building so the custom image can be used with accelerated networking enabled.

Use Case(s) Packer built custom image can be use to create VM with accelerated networking enabled.

Any relevant use-cases that you see. Production Apps VM needs to be with accelerated networking enabled.

[wjdavis5]

Been a day or two, curious if this will be picked up?

[dgiaffe]

Looking also to try and enable this for Citrix workloads without having to specify a machine profile in Citrix MCS.

[bazy84]

Looks like it's taking a while for it to be implemented.