The Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 ? 17:10:29 (+0000), Xie, Huawei wrote : > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Beno?t Canet [mailto:benoit.canet at irqsave.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:00 AM > > To: Xie, Huawei > > Cc: Beno?t Canet; dev at dpdk.org > > Subject: Re: vhost user examples > > > > The Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 ? 16:33:19 (+0000), Xie, Huawei wrote : > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Beno?t Canet [mailto:benoit.canet at irqsave.net] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:11 PM > > > > To: Xie, Huawei; dev at dpdk.org > > > > Subject: vhost user examples > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Xie, > > > > > > > > I would be interested in alpha testing the vhost user patchset. > > > > > > > > Is there an up to date example of how to use it ? > > > > > > > > > > vHost has a parameter called base_name. Temporarily you could specify -- > > base-name as > > > the unix domain socket path, and set it in the qemu command line as socket > > path. > > > recommended qemu command line for memory and vhost configuration: > > > -m $MEM -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=${MEM}M,mem- > > path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc > > > -chardev socket,id=char0,path=$sock_path -netdev type=vhost- > > user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce \ > > > -device virtio-net-pci,mac=52:54:00:12:34:11,netdev=mynet1 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Is the upstream vhost example in master already patched for this ? > > Or does it still required some patches ? > Yes, vhost example already supports base_name parameter. > Previously it is used for name of the vhost character device file. > You could use it as socket path name.
Thanks a lot I am looking forward receiving my intel network card and testing it. Best regards Beno?t > > > > > Best regards > > > > Beno?t > > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > > > Beno?t