It was a VMWare Workstation bug, but I forgot, I have a 2 year old version
of that product. Bad e1000 emulation.

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Burt Silverman <bur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have no problem building and running VPP using openSUSE and VirtualBox.
> I created a network interface and it shows as down after I start openSUSE.
> And after I start VPP, "show int" shows the interface.
>
> I can likewise create an e1000 interface [VMWare doesn't tell me it is
> e1000, but the kernel does] on VMWare. It is down with no addresses when I
> start CentOS. It has a PCI bus address.
>
> One thing that is similar in both working and non-working environments:
> the interface disappears from ifconfig -a after VPP starts running.
>
> But this interface does not produce any messages from DPDK, and I get the
> 0 ports problem.
>
> I don't know where to start trying to debug what DPDK is up to. Maybe
> someone knows quickly what it is about VMWare Workstation that requires
> extra TLC? Or how to debug? Even the build system is hairy in this DPDK
> area.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Burt
>
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