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Thread-Topic: [dpdk-users] Running DPDK as non-root
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> On Jul 7, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hi
>=20
> 2016-07-07 16:47, Jez Higgins:
>> Is it possible to get DPDK up and running as non-root - if so, can
>> anyone guide me to what I'm missing? Or should I be giving this up as a
>> bad job?
>=20
> You can try the --no-huge option.
> But most of drivers won't work without hugepage currently.
> A rework of the memory allocation is needed to make it work better.

Last time I looked DPDK must be run as root as the virtual to physical tran=
slation in the startup needs to be root, unless the no-huge option alters t=
he requirement. As I understand the virtual to physical translation needing=
 to be run a root is a Linux restriction. I do not know of any work arounds=
.