On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:42:00AM +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote: > 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 :-)
I already used a derivative of these directions... "cheated" and used the igb driver like they did. Unlike them I automated the entire process, including updating the base OS to latest kernel and recompiling against it, as well as auto-enabling the NICs, the SSE instruction sets, etc. etc. However their directions use an IGB NIC not a virtio-net NIC which would be much better for performance and resource consumption. So I really would be very very happy if we had a virtio-net which worked properly with both qemu and VirtualBox. Matthew.