Hi all, I'm trying to deploy OVS-DPDK using Kolla-Ansible Zed, and I'm running into a blocking issue during deployment. I would really appreciate your insights or suggestions. Problem Summary: During the deployment of ovs-dpdk, the container ovsdpdk-vswitchd fails to start, with the following error in its logs: + echo 'Running command: '\''/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd unix:/run/openvswitch/db.sock -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --mlockall --log-file=/var/log/kolla/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log --pidfile'\''' + exec /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd unix:/run/openvswitch/db.sock -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --mlockall --log-file=/var/log/kolla/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log --pidfile Running command: '/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd unix:/run/openvswitch/db.sock -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --mlockall --log-file=/var/log/kolla/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log --pidfile' ovs-vswitchd: invalid option -- 'w' ovs-vswitchd: invalid option -- 'w' EAL: FATAL: Invalid 'command line' arguments. 2025-07-30T13:44:59Z|00017|dpdk|EMER|Unable to initialize DPDK: Invalid argument ovs-vswitchd: Cannot init EAL (Invalid argument) This appears to be related to an incorrect parsing of arguments for ovs-vswitchd. What I’ve tried: I already applied this patch (as referenced in Gerrit): https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kolla-ansible/+/913653/1/ansible/role... However, the issue still persists. Additional context: • Deployment hangs on the task: name: Wait for dpdk tunnel ip It waits for 5 minutes and then fails. • The parameter dpdk_tunnel_interface_address is already set in my global.yml. • I’ve configured and bound NICs to vfio-pci. • Environment info: • OpenStack Zed • Kolla-Ansible Zed • dpdk_tunnel_interface_address is set • OVS-DPDK is containerized via Kolla Has anyone seen this issue before or can suggest further steps? Any insight on how to correctly pass EAL arguments or what else might be misconfigured would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, Samira