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Re: [Qemu-devel] [wiki] New wiki page - vhost-user setup with ovs/dpdk b
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Flavio Leitner |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [wiki] New wiki page - vhost-user setup with ovs/dpdk backend |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:44:18 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:51:19PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The page describes how to setup an environment that allows testing/developing
> vhost-user using ovs (with dpdk) as backend.
>
> A regular pc machine can be used, no need for several hosts, a 'dpdk enabled'
> NIC or 1G huge-pages.
>
> The goal is to connect guests' virtio-net devices having vhost-user backend
> to OVS dpdkvhostuser ports
> and be able to run any kind of network traffic between them.
>
> The page can be found at:
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/vhost-user-ovs-dpdk
>
> I want to keep it as simple as possible.
> If you see steps that can be skipped or unneeded configuration please let me
> know
> or feel free to update the page.
I gave a quick look and found couple issues. It seems to be missing
the installing steps for qemu. Also the eventfd_link module is only
needed for vhost-cuse, so you don't need to build/install/load at all.
Thanks for doing that Marcel!
fbl