Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-31 Thread Anupam Kapoor
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Hall wrote: > Sometimes your development system is a MacBook Pro. > touché ​ :) -- kind regards anupam​ In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and Emacs was the lambda.

Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-30 Thread Matthew Hall
> On Jan 30, 2017, at 11:43 PM, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > > >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Matthew Hall wrote: >> vmxnet3 and virtio-net support in DPDK are both broken in VirtualBox. I > > ​how about kvm+qemu combination. those seem to work fine for me. ymmv (tm) Sometimes your developmen

Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-30 Thread Anupam Kapoor
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Matthew Hall wrote: > vmxnet3 and virtio-net support in DPDK are both broken in VirtualBox. I > ​how about kvm+qemu combination. those seem to work fine for me. ymmv (tm) -- kind regards anupam​ In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, a

Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-30 Thread Matthew Hall
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 03:20:46PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > E1000 emulation is often problematic for DPDK. VMWare's emulation of PCI bus > does not handle interrupts correctly. > > Use virtual NIC's (vmxnet3 and virtio) if at all possible. vmxnet3 and virtio-net support in DPDK are both

Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:09:09 -0800 Matthew Hall wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 08:08:35PM -0600, Primus Mutasingwa wrote: > > I am new to DPDK. I want to try out on a laptop with an unsupported NIC. > > (linux ubuntu 16.04) > > VMWare or VirtualBox VM w/ Intel E1000 emulation. > E1000 emul

Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-30 Thread Matthew Hall
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 08:08:35PM -0600, Primus Mutasingwa wrote: > I am new to DPDK. I want to try out on a laptop with an unsupported NIC. > (linux ubuntu 16.04) VMWare or VirtualBox VM w/ Intel E1000 emulation. I use it for development all the time. It's not incredibly amazing but it works f

[dpdk-users] DPDK beginer: Best way to try out DPDK on a laptop with unsupported NIC

2017-01-29 Thread Primus Mutasingwa
Hello all, I am new to DPDK. I want to try out on a laptop with an unsupported NIC. (linux ubuntu 16.04) What are the best ways of doing this ? Are there any existing examples that address this use case? If possible I would like to be doing my development on a laptop entirely and move my work to a