On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 11:28:13 +0530 Shailja Pandey <csz168...@iitd.ac.in> wrote:
> 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) > > Most virtualization environments impose network spoofing rules such that a guest is only allowed to receive and send packets for its own mac address. I am not familiar with Virtual Box settings, but there maybe a way to override this.
