From: Mauricio Vasquez <mauricio.vasquez@polito.it>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Using qemu-system-x86_64 of KVM sourceforge project versus qemu-system-x86_64 of http://www.qemu.org/
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:14:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0753de7-7bd0-5b7c-10e0-fc03cf2b3ae8@polito.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wUV83v+vubtLHYqj0Gye5r4RbsLnJw8FWiWoZ1cm32_-g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Kevin,
On 08/04/2016 08:55 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use DPDK SRIOV passthrough with DPDK on Intel NICs.
> I am following the instructions in "Network Interface Controller Drivers", in
> http://fast.dpdk.org/doc/pdf-guides/nics-16.07.pdf
>
> I saw in "11.2 Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine Monitor" in this pdf
> that it says to
> download qemu-kvm-0.14.0 from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/qemu-kvm/
> ,build it and run /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
>
> My question is:
> there is also qemu-system-x86_64 executable in qemu Fedora rpms.
> It is built from the qemu project which is hosted on http://www.qemu.org.
> I made a brief comparison between the trees of both these projects
> (qemu and KVM qemu-kvm) and
> they seem different.
>
> Should SRIOV passthrough, as described in the aforementioned DPDK
> nics-16.07.pdf, work also with this qemu-system-x86_64 from the qemu
> project?
> or is using the qemu-system-x86_64 of the qemu project is not good
> enough, and using
> KVM qemu-system-x86_64 from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/qemu-kvm/ is a must ?
I have used qemu-system-x86_64, (directly downloaded and compiled from
http://www.qemu.org) without any issue, be sure that kvm is enabled by
setting "accel=kvm" in the qemu command line.
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
Regards,
Mauricio V,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 6:55 Kevin Wilson
2016-08-04 8:14 ` Mauricio Vasquez [this message]
2016-08-04 8:27 ` Kevin Wilson
2016-08-04 8:35 ` Mauricio Vasquez
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