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From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop
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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.

I use it for development all the time.

It's not incredibly amazing but it works fine.

Matthew.