Hi Jianfeng, Thank you for replying, I appreciate so much for this. we are trying to run our dpdk application on AWS cloud which use xen platform. for this case, what should I do to support AWS cloud ? Is there any way to do this ?
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng....@intel.com> wrote: > Hi Bill > > > On 9/30/2017 4:47 PM, Bill Bonaparte wrote: > >> Hi, everybody: >> I am trying to run dpdk in xen guest, after trying dpdk17.05 without >> success, I tried dpdk16.04 again. and it's sucessful to run testpmd this >> time. but it can't receive any packets. >> the command I used is : >> ./testpmd -l 1,2 -n 4 --vdev="eth_xenvirt0,mac=a6:38:57:e8:d5:be" >> --vdev="eth_xenvirt1,mac=32:f1:42:55:94:74" -- --total-num-mbufs=2048 >> >> I read the xen guide again, I found the guide says: >> DPDK provides a para-virtualization packet switching solution, based on >> the >> Xen hypervisor’s Grant Table, Note 1, which provides simple and fast >> packet >> switching capability between guest domains and host domain based on MAC >> address or VLAN tag. This solution is comprised of two components; a Poll >> Mode Driver (PMD) as the front end in the guest domain and a switching >> back >> end in the host domain. >> >> does it mean that dpdk running in DomU must cooperate with xen-vhost in >> Dom0 ? >> > > Yes, we need to run vhost_xen at dom0 so that xenvirt at domU can work. > But it has been long lack of test, not sure of it still works. > > And FYI, we are going to remove xen support (dom0, xenvirt, vhost_xen) in > the coming release. > > Thanks, > Jianfeng > > > I really need your help. >> I appreciate any reply from you . >> > >
