We're using CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu 12.04 and don't see any issue with both of them.
Regards, Daniel Kaminsky On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya < prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Intel DPDK release notes(1.5.2) mention the following tested OS -- > * Fedora release 18 > * Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS > * Wind River* Linux* 5 > * Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.3 > * SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP2 > > I have personally used Fedora 18 and it works fine for me for > virtualization including SRIOV and pass through as well as virtio with KNI > backend. > So I am tending to stick to Fedora 18. > > I don't know why is CentOS not tested and mentioned in release notes. > > Regards > -Prashant > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kan > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:01 PM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: > CentOS or Debian > > I'm deciding between Debian 7.3 (3.2.0 kernel) and CentOS 6.5 (2.6.32 > kernel) for production. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendation. We run > the DPDK application in a virtualized environment. Currently, we configure > NICs in pass-through mode which gives the best performance. In the future, > we plan to use DPDK with paravirtualized nics (eg. vmxnet3-usermap). Thanks. > > Dan > > > > > > =============================================================================== > Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html > for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. > > =============================================================================== >
