I see the below message "requested invalid api version" on host ? Will that be an issue or is it benign ? Should I upgrade the host ixgbe to a later version ?
On the host:
[69576.199458] ixgbe 0000:88:00.1 p4p2: VF 2 requested invalid api version 3
root# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
root@mtpnjrsv113:~#
root# ethtool -i p4p2
driver: ixgbe
version: 3.19.1
firmware-version: 0x80000811, 1.1067.0
bus-info: 0000:88:00.1
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
On the guest:
root# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
root# find / -name rte_kni.ko
/var/lib/dkms/dpdk/16.07/3.16.
0-30-generic/x86_64/module/rte_kni.ko
/lib/modules/3.16.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/rte_kni.ko