Hi,
I am trying to run dpdk application inside a virtual machine (Ubuntu
16.04) deployed in Oracle Virtualbox. The host machine is also the same
Ubuntu 16.04. I am running l2fwd application in the VM and the packets
are being generated using pktgen-DPDK running on other physical machine.
The issue I am facing is that I am not able to redirect packets
reaching the host machine to the virtual machine and hence the l2fwd
application running inside VM shows zero packet counts. I am
successfully binding network interfaces on virtual machine to use
DPDK-compatible driver. I think I am missing something while binding the
physical network interfaces to the virtual machine. Some discussion
forum suggests using device passthrough to achieve this. I am not able
to figure out exactly what is to be done. Any help would be appreciated.
Output of lspci | grep Ether :
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller
10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller
10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710
for 40GbE QSFP+ (rev 02)
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710
for 40GbE QSFP+ (rev 02)
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Thanks,
Shailja
