[dpdk-dev] White listing a virtual device

[Nicolas Pernas Maradei]

On 07/11/14 13:26, Neil Horman wrote:
> Then you create the pcap device with --vdev, and simply don't load the pmds for
> any of your physical devices (or just don't use pci-whitelist at all if you're
> doing a static build).  If you do that, then the corresponding niantic driver
> won't initialize any of the hardware, you'll only get the pcap port.
>
> Neil

Hi Neil,

What you are saying is just another way to black list the ports I don't 
want to use. I'm aware of that option (as well as using the -b option) 
but in our particular case we have several systems under test with 
different configurations and we want to use this virtual port only. 
Which seems to be a perfect use case for white listing rather than black 
listing or modifying the system configuration.

As far as I remember this option was available in previous versions.

Thanks,
Nico.