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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:20:46 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop
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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.