[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/24] Single virtio implementation

Matthew Hall mhall at mhcomputing.net
Tue Jan 27 10:41:13 CET 2015


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:42:00AM +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote:
> There is an app note on how to get DPDK working in VirtualBox, it is a bit
> bumpy on getting it work.
> Here is the link: 
> http://plvision.eu/blog/deploying-intel-dpdk-in-oracle-virtualbox/
> 
> I have not tried it, but it was suggested to me it should work. It will be
> nice if the new driver works better :-)

I already used a derivative of these directions... "cheated" and used the igb 
driver like they did. Unlike them I automated the entire process, including 
updating the base OS to latest kernel and recompiling against it, as well as 
auto-enabling the NICs, the SSE instruction sets, etc. etc.

However their directions use an IGB NIC not a virtio-net NIC which would be 
much better for performance and resource consumption. So I really would be 
very very happy if we had a virtio-net which worked properly with both qemu 
and VirtualBox.

Matthew.


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