Hi Anatoly, Has anything happened in this front? Do you see running of DPDK in guest OS on KVM with physical NIC passed through to it happening soon?
Thanks, -Sujith On 02/05/14 2:28 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote: >Hi Stephen, > >> Will this work in guest? or only on bare metal? > >VFIO is Linux-only, and in theory will be able to work on the guest, but >not at the moment, since it requires IOMMU. There was a GSoC proposal for >KVM to do IOMMU implementation, and there were a few AMD IOMMU-emulation >patches floating around the KVM lists for some time, but nothing has made >it into release yet. > >Best regards, >Anatoly Burakov >DPDK SW Engineer > >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Intel Shannon Limited >Registered in Ireland >Registered Office: Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare >Registered Number: 308263 >Business address: Dromore House, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare > > >
