On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:37 AM Vijayakumar Athithan < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:44 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 2021-03-02 17:51, Vijayakumar Athithan: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have been exploring DPDK 19.xx for a firewall use case demo. Over the >> > last few weeks I was able to understand how to run testpmd, dpdk-pdump, >> > basicfwd. I was able to build DPDK, compile examples and bind the DPDK >> > drivers to NIC interfaces as well using dpdk-setup.sh. >> > >> > I struggle to test DPDK applications as my laptop NIC is not supported >> by >> > DPDK. Then I used a VMware workstation player where host OS is Windows10 >> > and guest OS is Ubuntu 16.xx. In VM I get e1000 ( Intel Corporation >> 82540EM) >> > as ethernet controller. >> > >> > I get I/O error when I try to run DPDK applications as there is known >> > limitation on using Intel Corporation 82540EM based on one of the >> > references. >> > Is there way to change e1000-82540EM into other supported NIC in vm >> player ? >> >> Hi Vijayakumar, >> >> You're looking for vmxnet3, VMWare-native paravirtualized device. >> There's a vmxnet3 PMD in DPDK. >> Adapter type should be configurable in VM properties. >> >> > Hi Dmitry, > > Thanks for your inputs. Let me try with your inputs and get back to you. > > Thanks, > B.Vijayakumar Athithan > I tried the Ubuntu 18.x version with DPDK 19.xx. e1000 is working there. Not sure what I missed earlier. Thanks for inputs. Thanks, B.Vijayakumar Athithan
