2014-11-07 13:39, Nicolas Pernas Maradei: > On 07/11/14 13:26, Neil Horman wrote: > > Then you create the pcap device with --vdev, and simply don't load the pmds > > for > > any of your physical devices (or just don't use pci-whitelist at all if > > you're > > doing a static build). If you do that, then the corresponding niantic > > driver > > won't initialize any of the hardware, you'll only get the pcap port. > > What you are saying is just another way to black list the ports I don't > want to use. I'm aware of that option (as well as using the -b option) > but in our particular case we have several systems under test with > different configurations and we want to use this virtual port only. > Which seems to be a perfect use case for white listing rather than black > listing or modifying the system configuration.
Sorry I don't understand why you don't want to use the blacklist option. -- Thomas
