Re: Pktgen failing in a virtualbox virtual machine

["Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>]

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> Pktgen no longer has a maintainer, so it considered abandoned at this point.
> What does DPDK startup show? The problem is probably that virtualbox doesn't fully
> emulate the Intel NIC and the DPDK PMD doesn't like that.
>
> Hi Stephen,
> (sorry if formatting is bad as MacOS Outlook has some issues with plain text replies)
>
> I still maintain Pktgen, but mostly from GitHub issues @ https://github.com/pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK I do have very limited time, so not always the fastest responses.
> DPDK gets a lot of emails and sometimes I miss these emails (need to improve my emails rule filter).
> I do update dpdk.org Pktgen repo when I can, but it seemed like most of the requests were coming from GitHub.
>
> This person created an issue at Pktgen GitHub and also posted to this group at the same time. I did respond to his issue and try to work out a solution. I never test using a VM or containers, so it is difficult to help them sometimes.
>
> If you wish you can remove Pktgen from dpdk.org, but if you do please include a link to the GitHub repository.
> Thank you.
>
>

That's great. I assumed (always bad to do) that since there was hardly any activity in dpdk.org repo
that you were off doing other things. Which place do you want to keep as primary repo?

I would like to keep the primary repo @ https://github.com/pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK and use issues to track questions and requests.


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