But for the sake of simplicity, here is selected useful information needed when starting with DPDK for the first time.

There is good information from intel on DPDK, quickstarts, howtos etc. Ping the two guest interfaces in order to populate the ARP table:įind the arp entries an make them persistent: Then you need to make sure that the interface is assigned an IP address (dhcp should work and you should be able to ping the guest from the host but you may need to configure dhcp on the virtual network if virtual box doesn’t do that). Then, to configure a network interface in host-only mode you need to create a host-only adapter (this applies to VirtualBox). I would also recommend reserving about 4 GB of RAM to make sure DPDK works properly. If you happen to go down this road too, then it’s a good advice to do a few things before starting the test application.įirst I would recommend configuring two virtual processors on the virtual machine, it makes possible to use most of the DPDK test apps, like testpmd. I created three virtual NICs for my vm, one behind NAT to use it to ssh into the vm from the host, and two in host-only mode, to be use for testing. To run openvswitch with DPDK I used a virtual machine ( VirtualBox) because the NIC I had on my laptop was not supported. One is the openvswitch fork from intel, called dpdk-ovs the other is done directly in openvswitch with a different approach from intel. There are two approaches for using DPDK acceleration in DPDK.

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