Hi Kevin, On 08/04/2016 08:55 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to use DPDK SRIOV passthrough with DPDK on Intel NICs. > I am following the instructions in "Network Interface Controller Drivers", in > http://fast.dpdk.org/doc/pdf-guides/nics-16.07.pdf > > I saw in "11.2 Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine Monitor" in this pdf > that it says to > download qemu-kvm-0.14.0 from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/qemu-kvm/ > ,build it and run /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 > > My question is: > there is also qemu-system-x86_64 executable in qemu Fedora rpms. > It is built from the qemu project which is hosted on http://www.qemu.org. > I made a brief comparison between the trees of both these projects > (qemu and KVM qemu-kvm) and > they seem different. > > Should SRIOV passthrough, as described in the aforementioned DPDK > nics-16.07.pdf, work also with this qemu-system-x86_64 from the qemu > project? > or is using the qemu-system-x86_64 of the qemu project is not good > enough, and using > KVM qemu-system-x86_64 from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/qemu-kvm/ is a must ? I have used qemu-system-x86_64, (directly downloaded and compiled from http://www.qemu.org) without any issue, be sure that kvm is enabled by setting "accel=kvm" in the qemu command line.
> Regards, > Kevin > Regards, Mauricio V,