[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

[Thomas Monjalon]

2014-10-24 08:10, O'driscoll, Tim:
> > From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net]
> > 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