Using AWS I have, * c5n.metal instance * running 64-bit x86 Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) - Kernel 5.10 ( ami-0ed9277fb7eb570c9) * DPDK 22.03-rc0 * I've installed the ena kernel fix in https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers/tree/master/userspace/dpdk/enav2-vfio-patch I add a second NIC to the instance in the normal way. This second NIC starts UP. So I bring the NIC down and bind it: * lspci | grep Eth 7e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Amazon.com, Inc. Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) 7f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Amazon.com, Inc. Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) * sudo ip link set eth1 down Then I bind: * sudo ./dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci 7f:00.0 Error: bind failed for 0000:7f:00.0 - Cannot bind to driver vfio-pci: [Errno 19] No such device The error seems to arise from when attempting to close the file descriptor on /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind dpdk-devbind.py never shows the device bound to vfio: * sudo ./dpdk-devbind.py -s Other Network devices ===================== 0000:7f:00.0 'Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) ec20' unused=ena,vfio-pci