On 1/26/15, 8:06 PM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:35:40AM +0800, Ouyang Changchun wrote: >> This is the patch set for single virtio implementation. >> >> Why we need single virtio? >> ============================ >> As we know currently there are at least 3 virtio PMD driver >>implementations: >> A) lib/librte_pmd_virtio(refer as virtio A); >> B) virtio_net_pmd by 6wind(refer as virtio B); >> C) virtio by Brocade/vyatta(refer as virtio C); >> >> Integrating 3 implementations into one could reduce the maintaining >>cost and time, >> in other hand, user don't need practice their application on 3 variant >>one by one to see >> which one is the best for them; > >Thank you so much for this, using virtio drivers in DPDK has been messy >and >unpleasant in the past, and you clearly wrote a lot of nice new code to >help >improve it all. > >Previously I'd reported a bug, where all RTE virtio drivers I tried (A >and B, >because I did not know C existed), failed to work with the virtio-net >interfaces exposed in VirtualBox, due to various strange errors, and they >all >only worked with the virtio-net interfaces from qemu. > >I wanted to find out if we managed to fix this other problem, because I >would >really like to use the Vagrant VM deployment tool >(https://www.vagrantup.com/) >to distribute my open-source DPDK based application to everyone in the >open source community. > >The better the out-of-box experience of practical community-created >DPDK-based >real-life example applications similar to mine, the more adoption of DPDK >and >better DPDK community we will be able to have as time marches forward. > >If we could manage to get it to work in VirtualBox, then I could surely >help >do some app-level testing on the new code, if we could see it in a test >branch >or test repo somewhere I could access it. There is an app note on how to get DPDK working in VirtualBox, it is a bit bumpy on getting it work. Here is the link: http://plvision.eu/blog/deploying-intel-dpdk-in-oracle-virtualbox/ I have not tried it, but it was suggested to me it should work. It will be nice if the new driver works better :-) > >Sincerely, >Matthew Hall
