On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:40:47 +0530 Shankari Vaidyalingam <shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Can anyone please help me whether I'm missing something in the below > exercise > > Regards > Shankari.V > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Shankari Vaidyalingam < > shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm trying to run sample DPDK applications by injecting packets from an > > external traffic generator. > > I'm not able to get the frames to reach the RX queue of the corresponding > > port and make the PMD detect those packets and get the application process > > them. > > > > My configuration is: > > > > I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to have 2 virtual network adapters for use in > > the sample application. I have configured both the network adapters in the > > "Bridged Networking" mode. > > When I open the VM I can see the interfaces - eth0 and eth1 > > I bound the 2 interfaces to igb_uio driver and then configured the > > hugepage mapping. > > When I try sending the frames from an external source I had set the dest > > MAC to the MAC addr of the ports bound to DPDK. > > But still I'm not able to see either the "Frames received" or "Frames > > dropped" count getting incremented. > > > > I tried googling and tried various options for networking mode as > > (Bridged/Host Only...) but none of them seem to work fine. > > > > I'm sure that I'm missing something. > > Can you please help me in this regard. > > > > Regards > > Shankari.V > > > > VirtualBox has its own version of virtio which is not compatiable with the current version of DPDK virtio driver.
