Do Palo Alto VMs support GCP N4 gve driver?

Carracido — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:49:03 GMT

Dear community!

Do you know if Palo Alto VM series firewalls is compatible with Google Cloud N4 machine family??

With N4 family the dataplane interfaces type=gve are not recognized

> debug show vm-series interfaces all
Interface_name Base-OS_port Base-OS_MAC PCI-ID Driver
mgt (interface-swap) eth0 XXXXXX 0000:00:04.0 gve

> show interface all
total configured hardware interfaces: 3
name                    id    speed/duplex/state            mac address
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ethernet1/1             16    ukn/ukn/down(autoneg)         00:00:00:00:00:00
ethernet1/2             17    ukn/ukn/down(autoneg)         00:00:00:00:00:00
ethernet1/3             18    ukn/ukn/down(autoneg)         00:00:00:00:00:00

Thank you!

Re: Do Palo Alto VMs support GCP N4 gve driver?

OtakarKlier — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:36:31 GMT

Hello,

While I am not an expert on the VM series, according to this article, the N4 is not supported.

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/vm-series/11-1/vm-series-deployment/set-up-the-vm-series-firewall-on-google-cloud-platform/about-the-vm-series-firewall-on-google-cloud-platform

Regards,

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