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

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

On 1/26/15, 8:06 PM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:35:40AM +0800, Ouyang Changchun wrote:
>> This is the patch set for single virtio implementation.
>>  
>> Why we need single virtio?
>> ============================
>> As we know currently there are at least 3 virtio PMD driver
>>implementations:
>> A) lib/librte_pmd_virtio(refer as virtio A);
>> B) virtio_net_pmd by 6wind(refer as virtio B);
>> C) virtio by Brocade/vyatta(refer as virtio C);
>>  
>> Integrating 3 implementations into one could reduce the maintaining
>>cost and time,
>> in other hand, user don't need practice their application on 3 variant
>>one by one to see
>> which one is the best for them;
>
>Thank you so much for this, using virtio drivers in DPDK has been messy
>and 
>unpleasant in the past, and you clearly wrote a lot of nice new code to
>help 
>improve it all.
>
>Previously I'd reported a bug, where all RTE virtio drivers I tried (A
>and B, 
>because I did not know C existed), failed to work with the virtio-net
>interfaces exposed in VirtualBox, due to various strange errors, and they
>all 
>only worked with the virtio-net interfaces from qemu.
>
>I wanted to find out if we managed to fix this other problem, because I
>would 
>really like to use the Vagrant VM deployment tool
>(https://www.vagrantup.com/)
>to distribute my open-source DPDK based application to everyone in the
>open source community.
>
>The better the out-of-box experience of practical community-created
>DPDK-based 
>real-life example applications similar to mine, the more adoption of DPDK
>and 
>better DPDK community we will be able to have as time marches forward.
>
>If we could manage to get it to work in VirtualBox, then I could surely
>help 
>do some app-level testing on the new code, if we could see it in a test
>branch 
>or test repo somewhere I could access it.

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 :-)
>
>Sincerely,
>Matthew Hall