Hi, team We have the problem of running the dpdk-l3fwd application inside a VM. The tool can’t be started inside the VM with the following error message: dpdk-l3fwd -l 1 -- -p 0x3 --config="(0,0,1),(1,0,1)" --parse-ptype EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 9 EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1 EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA' EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_virtio (1af4:1000) device: 0000:00:04.0 (socket -1) EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_virtio (1af4:1000) device: 0000:00:05.0 (socket -1) TELEMETRY: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created soft parse-ptype is enabled Neither ACL, LPM, EM, or FIB selected, defaulting to LPM L3FWD: Missing 1 or more rule files, using default instead Initializing port 0 ... Creating queues: nb_rxq=1 nb_txq=1... Port 0 modified RSS hash function based on hardware support,requested:0xa38c configured:0 Ethdev port_id=0 requested Rx offloads 0xe doesn't match Rx offloads capabilities 0x2201 in rte_eth_dev_configure() EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 Cause: Cannot configure device: err=-22, port=0 Could you please advise on what have been done in configuration in wrong way? Please find below the details of environment preparation. Additional note: on the same VM with the same configuration testpmd is being run successfully and traffic is being offloaded without any issues. Env details: 1. We use the VM image based on ‘RedHat 8.8’ with DPDK 22.11.2 LTS. We have built DPDK inside VM with the following command: meson --buildtype=debug -Dexamples=all -Dplatform=generic x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc ninja -C x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc 1. Additionally, we have configured 1G huge pages. 1. We have used the following command to start the VM: taskset -c 3,5,7,9,15,17,19,21,23 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm \ -cpu host -m 8192 \ -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=8192M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on \ -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc -smp 9 \ -chardev socket,id=char0,path=/usr/local/var/run/stdvio5,server=on \ -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet0,chardev=char0,vhostforce=on,queues=1 \ -device virtio-net-pci,packed=on,mq=on,vectors=4,rx_queue_size=1024,tx_queue_size=1024,netdev=mynet0,mac=52:54:00:00:0a:01,mrg_rxbuf=on \ -chardev socket,id=char1,path=/usr/local/var/run/stdvio6,server=on \ -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char1,vhostforce=on,queues=1 \ -device virtio-net-pci,packed=on,mq=on,vectors=4,rx_queue_size=1024,tx_queue_size=1024,netdev=mynet1,mac=52:54:00:00:0a:02,mrg_rxbuf=on \ -net user,hostfwd=tcp::10021-:22 \ -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:00:0a:01 \ -nographic /tmp/vm1.qcow2 1. Once VM is started the following configuration is inside the VM: modprobe uio_pci_generic sleep 3 /root/dpdk//usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=uio_pci_generic 00:04.0 /root/dpdk//usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=uio_pci_generic 00:05.0 ---------- /root/dpdk/usertools/dpdk-hugepages.py --show Node Pages Size Total 0 5 1Gb 5Gb Hugepages mounted on /dev/hugepages ---------- lspci 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio network device ---------- /root/dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver ============================================ 0000:00:04.0 'Virtio network device 1000' drv=uio_pci_generic unused= 0000:00:05.0 'Virtio network device 1000' drv=uio_pci_generic unused= Network devices using kernel driver =================================== 0000:00:03.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller 100e' if=eth2 drv=e1000 unused=uio_pci_generic *Active* ---------- /root/dpdk/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/examples/dpdk-ethtool EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 9 EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1 EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA' EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_virtio (1af4:1000) device: 0000:00:04.0 (socket -1) EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_virtio (1af4:1000) device: 0000:00:05.0 (socket -1) TELEMETRY: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created Number of NICs: 2 Init port 0.. Init port 1.. EthApp> drvinfo firmware version get error: (Operation not supported) Port 0 driver: net_virtio (ver: DPDK 22.11.2) firmware-version: bus-info: 0000:00:04.0 firmware version get error: (Operation not supported) Port 1 driver: net_virtio (ver: DPDK 22.11.2) firmware-version: bus-info: 0000:00:05.0 1. Host configuration: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 (Ootpa), Linux 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64 QEMU emulator version 6.2.0 (qemu-kvm-6.2.0-22.module+el8.7.0+18170+646069c1.2) OVS 2.17.2 DPDK 21.11.1 Thank you. With best regards, Yurii