[dpdk-users] Unable to Bind Device in VirtualBox VM

[Stephen Hemminger]

KVM/QEMU

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Nick Allen <nick at nickallen.org> wrote:

> What is typically used instead of VirtualBox?  I'd be happy to try an
> alternative.  Ideally, it would be something that could run across
> different host operating systems; including OS X and Linux.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:45:20 -0500
> > Nick Allen <nick at nickallen.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Problem: I am unable to bind a virtual NIC using DPDK 2.2.0 that I
> >> created inside of a Ubuntu 14.04 guest running in VirtualBox 5.0.14 on
> >> OS X 10.11.3 on a 2015 Macbook Pro.  Here is the error that I am
> >> seeing.
> >>
> >
> > Do you mean the virtio NIC?
> > VirtualBox has a non-standard implementation of virtio and I suspect
> > the feature negotiation isn't working. Could be a virtualbox bug.
> >
> > Since virtualbox is not open source, I don't use or test it.
>
>
>
> --
> Nick Allen <nick at nickallen.org>
>