Hi Anatoly,

Has anything happened in this front?  Do you see running of DPDK in guest
OS on KVM with physical NIC passed through to it happening soon?

Thanks,
-Sujith 

On 02/05/14 2:28 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:

>Hi Stephen,
>
>> Will this work in guest? or only on bare metal?
>
>VFIO is Linux-only, and in theory will be able to work on the guest, but
>not at the moment, since it requires IOMMU. There was a GSoC proposal for
>KVM to do IOMMU implementation, and there were a few AMD IOMMU-emulation
>patches floating around the KVM lists for some time, but nothing has made
>it into release yet.
>
>Best regards,
>Anatoly Burakov
>DPDK SW Engineer
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