[dpdk-dev] Running dpdk application inside virtual machine created on VirtualBox

[Shailja Pandey <csz168117@iitd.ac.in>]

Hi,

I am trying to run dpdk application inside a virtual machine (Ubuntu 
16.04) deployed in Oracle Virtualbox. The host machine is also the same 
Ubuntu 16.04. I am running l2fwd application in the VM and the packets 
are being generated using pktgen-DPDK running on other physical machine. 
The issue I am facing is  that I am not able to redirect packets 
reaching the host machine to the virtual machine and hence the l2fwd 
application running inside VM shows zero packet counts. I am 
successfully binding network interfaces on virtual machine to use 
DPDK-compatible driver. I think I am missing something while binding the 
physical network interfaces to the virtual machine. Some discussion 
forum suggests using device passthrough to achieve this. I am not able 
to figure out exactly what is to be done. Any help would be appreciated.

Output of lspci | grep Ether :

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 
10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 
10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 
for 40GbE QSFP+ (rev 02)
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 
for 40GbE QSFP+ (rev 02)


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Thanks,
Shailja