[dpdk-dev] Regarding usage of vmxnet3 PMD with DPDK2.0

2015-06-25 Thread Puneet Singh
I am migrating from using DPDK1.6r2 and the external vmxnet3 user map driver to DPDK2.0. I believe with DPDK2.0, the vmxnet3 PMD is builtin and I don?t need to use the external driver. I have been able to build the DPDK2.0 and I see that CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VMXNET3_PMD is set to y in the config. Que

[dpdk-dev] Regarding usage of vmxnet3 PMD with DPDK2.0

2015-06-25 Thread Patel, Rashmin N
That's correct. If you're using dpdk packaged vmxnet3 pmd, you should be able to bind it to igb_uio in Guest OS and start l2fwd/ l3fwd app in VM. On the ESXi part, your vmxnet3 device must be connected to one of the vSwitches with Uplink port, so you don't need to configure anything else, I beli