Sure I will try that. I am getting an error called “Empty set of forwarding logical cores - check the core mask supplied in the command parameters”. What does this mean? I have 2 cores and I give core mask argument as -c f
Thanking You, Param. > On 14-Dec-2016, at 3:22 PM, Thomas Monjalon <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > 2016-12-14 15:08, Kumaraparameshwaran Rathnavel: >> Hi All, >> >> I have been trying to use network drivers provided by the DPDK to write a >> small client - server application. I will explain the configuration > > I suggest to start your tests with testpmd in txonly mode. > >> I used uio_pci_generic and igb_uio both modules in the Kernel for DPDK >> Network drivers in userspace. The client and server were run on Centos VM >> with virtual box as the Host and made sure that Virtual NIC had the driver. >> >> The sequence of calling the functions as >> >> rte_eth_dev_count >> rte_eth_dev_configure >> tx_queue_setup >> rte_pkt_mbuf_alloc >> >> I filled the packet with Ethernet Header and Ethertype as 0x8870. I did fill >> the pkt_len and l2_hdr len. I did not fill the VLAN Tag, Outer VLAN tag, >> flags. Transmission is showing success but I am not receiving any packet in >> the other side wheree i run the receiver setup. >> >> Can you suggest what should be done and how it should be done. >> >> Does Drivers work in Virtual Box? If not which is prefered ESX or KVM and >> does Virtual NICs work? > > The supported NICs are listed here: http://dpdk.org/doc/nics > <http://dpdk.org/doc/nics> > Virtualbox is not known to be fully compatible, but virtio works with Qemu/KVM > and vmxnet3 works with ESX.
