From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:10:20 +0200 Message-ID: <2237912.y2DQ3nfIDF@xps13> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA54C361DF@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> <20141022192219.GB10424@mhcomputing.net> <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA54C42AEE@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Matthew Hall Return-path: In-Reply-To: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA54C42AEE-kPTMFJFq+rFP9JyJpTNKArfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 2014-10-24 08:10, O'driscoll, Tim: > > From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org] > > Specifically, in the virtio-net case above, I have discovered, and Sergio at Intel > > just reproduced today, that neither virtio PMD works at all inside of > > VirtualBox. One can't init, and the other gets into an infinite loop. But yet it's > > claiming support for VBox on the DPDK Supported NICs page though it > > doesn't seem it ever could have worked. > > At the moment, within Intel we test with KVM, Xen and ESXi. We've never > tested with VirtualBox. So, maybe this is an error on the Supported NICs > page, or maybe somebody else is testing that configuration. I'm the author of this page. I think I've written VirtualBox to show where virtio is implemented. You interpreted this as "supported environment", so I'm removing it. Thanks for testing and reporting. -- Thomas