Thank you Anatoly ! I?ll do that and get back in case of questions. Regards, -Sujith
On 08/09/14 2:00 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote: >Hi Sujith > >Of course you can. Just use the igb_uio driver instead. Refer to the >Getting Started Guide from Intel, it'll walk you through the steps, >although they are basically the same as for VFIO. > >Thanks, >Anatoly > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sujith Sankar (ssujith) [mailto:ssujith at cisco.com] >Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 9:28 AM >To: Burakov, Anatoly; Stephen Hemminger >Cc: dev at dpdk.org >Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to >DPDK > >Anatoly, >Thanks for the quick response ! > >I am able do PCI passthrough and use the NIC in the guest OS. >What I?m trying to do is run DPDK in the guest and make use of the >passed-through NIC. Without using VFIO, could I achieve this? > >Thanks, >-Sujith > >On 08/09/14 1:51 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote: > >>Hi Sujith >> >>Not that I know of, no. There are other ways to run physical NICs in a >>VM though, you don't require VFIO for that. >> >>Thanks, >>Anatoly >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Sujith Sankar (ssujith) [mailto:ssujith at cisco.com] >>Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 9:20 AM >>To: Burakov, Anatoly; Stephen Hemminger >>Cc: dev at dpdk.org >>Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to >>DPDK >> >>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 >>> >>>-------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Intel Shannon Limited >>>Registered in Ireland >>>Registered Office: Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County >>>Kildare Registered Number: 308263 Business address: Dromore House, >>>East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare >>> >>> >>> >> >
