OpenWRT Related Question

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:06:18 -0400
IraM <iramica at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Best I can tell is l2fwd is looking for vfio drivers, where only uio drivers are loaded.
> 
> I tried binding VFIO drivers using
> dpdk-devbind.py --bind=vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0 
> 
> But it fails as follows:
> Vfio-pci: probe of 0000:0b:00.0 failed with error -22
> Vfio-pci: probe of 0000:0b:00.0 failed with error -22
> Lspci: unable to load libkmod resources: error -12
> Error: bind failed for 0000:0b:00.0 - Cannot bind to driver vfio-pci: [Errno 19] No such device
> Error: unbind failed for 0000:0b:00.0 - Cannot open /sysy/bus/pci/drivers//unbind: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/sys/bus/pci/drivers//unbind'

You need to run as root.
Does VMWare have virtual IOMMU?