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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to DPDK
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On 02/05/2014 11:00, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> hmm, vfio requires iommu support, however virtio pmd?
>
> That's correct, virtio will not work with VFIO as it stands. However it's not the fault of this patch but rather lack of emulated IOMMU on the guest :-)

My 2 cents:
   http://dpdk.org/browse/virtio-net-pmd/tree/README.rst
it works without UIO.

Best regards,
   Vincent