On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:31:37 -0700
Verghis Koshi <vkoshi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> Thanks for the response.
> I've tried with two virtual NICs, each bound to VFIO, as you can see
> below.
>
> verghis@verghis-VirtualBox:~/dpdk-stable-22.11.1/build$
> ../usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --status
>
> Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
> ============================================
> 0000:00:08.0 '79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] 2000' drv=vfio-pci unused=pcnet32
> 0000:00:09.0 '79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] 2000' drv=vfio-pci unused=pcnet32
Pcnet32 is not a device supported by DPDK.
To use DPDK with a hardware device, the DPDK library must have a driver
for that hardware since the library interacts directly with hardware registers
and rings.