DPDK patches and discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
To: Reda Haddad <reda.haddad@ericsson.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] igb_uio fails on VirtualBox virtio
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:39:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG8AbRXtxt2Q7rErTUo-5XDq6Y5LN-1D97Lft9seXKjsjOiAhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF1AB6F4.3BC91%reda.haddad@ericsson.com>

You should use another virtio because it avoids uio constraints.

I have been using it to run testpmd on Virtualbox longtime ago.

See http://dpdk.org/browse/virtio-net-pmd/

Best regards,
   Vincent
Le 8 févr. 2014 01:35, "Reda Haddad" <reda.haddad@ericsson.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I am getting a "write error: No such device" when:
> echo  0000:00:08.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/igb_uio/bind
>
> This is on Virtualbox with a virtio based adapter.
>
> This also fails when using the dpdk pci_unbind:
> ./tools/pci_unbind.py --bind=igb_uio 00:08.0
> Cannot bind to driver igb_uio
>
> I have read (http://dpdk.org/doc) that the dpdk (I am using version 1.6)
> supports virtio on virtual box. Is it truly supported?
> If yes, any clue on what is the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Reda
>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-08 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-08  0:14 Reda Haddad
2014-02-08 12:39 ` Vincent JARDIN [this message]
2014-02-10 19:18   ` Reda Haddad
2014-02-10 22:32     ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-02-11  0:35       ` Reda Haddad

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAG8AbRXtxt2Q7rErTUo-5XDq6Y5LN-1D97Lft9seXKjsjOiAhA@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=vincent.jardin@6wind.com \
    --cc=dev@dpdk.org \
    --cc=reda.haddad@ericsson.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).