[dpdk-dev] whether DPDK support FreeBSD Guest OS VM on Xen hypervisor.

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 05:06:38AM +0000, Zhongliang Shu wrote:
> Hi, Guys:
> 
> I have found the DPDK Xen Guideline and there have example and steps
> 
> About how DPDK supporting Linux Guest OS VM on Xen Hypervisor.
> 
> But I cannot find similar document  about FreeBSD Guest OS VM on Xen Hypervisor.
> 
> For example,
> 
> 1): there has xen_dom0.ko under librte_eal/linuxapp, but not have under
> 
> librte_eal/bsdapp.
> 2):  it uses Linux head file under examples/vhost_xen.3):  drivers/net/xenvirt source uses Linux Head files.
>  
> 
> Is the DPDK17.05.2 supporting FreeBSD Guest OS VM on
> Xen Hypervisor?  If yes, could you forward me the links of such document?
> Thanks.

Hi,

While I'm not a Xen expert (by any stretch of the imagination :-) ), I
think that Xen Dom0 support is different to general Xen guest support. DPDK
should probably run ok on BSD under Xen as a generic guest, but I'm not
aware of any support for DPDK under BSD as Xen Dom0.

/Bruce