From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
Cc: Primus Mutasingwa <pmutasingwa@gmail.com>, users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:20:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170130152046.3a47169f@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170130230909.GA2194@mhcomputing.net>
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:09:09 -0800
Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 08:08:35PM -0600, Primus Mutasingwa wrote:
> > I am new to DPDK. I want to try out on a laptop with an unsupported NIC.
> > (linux ubuntu 16.04)
>
> VMWare or VirtualBox VM w/ Intel E1000 emulation.
>
E1000 emulation is often problematic for DPDK. VMWare's emulation of PCI bus
does not handle interrupts correctly.
Use virtual NIC's (vmxnet3 and virtio) if at all possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-30 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-30 2:08 Primus Mutasingwa
2017-01-30 23:09 ` Matthew Hall
2017-01-30 23:20 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-01-31 2:42 ` Matthew Hall
2017-01-31 7:43 ` Anupam Kapoor
2017-01-31 7:49 ` Matthew Hall
2017-01-31 8:45 ` Anupam Kapoor
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