Hi, FYI vfio-pci is not supported inside a VM yet: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg04284.html
It is a work in progress (slide 19): https://dpdksummit.com/Archive/pdf/2016USA/Day02-Session14-FranckBaudin-DPDKUSASummit2016.pdf Regards, Sergio On 12/09/2016 14:51, Andriy Berestovskyy wrote: > Hey Raman, > Check dmesg for the details. I guess you have no IOMMU enabled, so you > should either go ahead and enable it wit intel_iommu=on or use > uio_pci_generic or igb_uio module instead of vfio-pci. > > Regards, > Andriy > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:42 PM, raman geetha gopalakrishnan > <glowingsun at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi DPDK-USERS, >> >> 1. I have installed DPDK on my virtual-box which runs ubuntu 16.04.1 >> (xenial). >> 2. My DPDK version is 16.07 >> 3. When i try to bind ethernet device to VFIO module i get the following >> error >> >> Error: bind failed for 0000:00:08.0 - cannot bind to driver vfio-pci [ >> this is for NIC 82545EM] >> debug message gave the rrror >> vfio-pci: probe of 0000:00:08.0 failed with error -22 >> >> >> Please Advice. >> >> Thanks >> Raman > >
