<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>ESXi 5.0 doesn't have SR-IOV support (it's in the code, but is disabled and not usable for customers). VMware introduced SR-IOV support, including out of the box support for Intel Niantic 10GbE NICs, in ESXi 5.1.<br></div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span>--<br>Bhavesh Davda<span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Henry Wang" <wang_hr@neusoft.com><br><b>To: </b>"Rui Vaz (ruvaz)" <ruvaz@cisco.com><br><b>Cc: </b>dev@dpdk.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, May 9, 2013 6:18:04 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_eth_dev_count() returns 0<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;color:rgb(51,51,255)"><div class="gmail_default">As far as I known, DPDK(1.2.3) only supports the following NICs:</div><div class="gmail_default">
(1) Intel 82576, 82580, I350 chipset based NICs;</div><div class="gmail_default">(2) Intel 82599, X540T, X520T chipset based NICs;</div><div class="gmail_default">(3) virtual NICs generated by SR-IOV from (2).</div><div class="gmail_default">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default">If the NICs on your C220 M3 is one of (2), you can run l2fwdvf OR l3fwdvf successfully with SR-IOV enabled in ESXi.</div><div class="gmail_default">And I do not know wheather ESXi 5.0 VMM has SR-IOV function or not.</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Further more, please reference to DPDK release notes.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/release-notes/intel-dpdk-release-notes.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/release-notes/intel-dpdk-release-notes.pdf</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Rui Vaz (ruvaz) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruvaz@cisco.com" target="_blank">ruvaz@cisco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi dev-dpdk,<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am following a Intel DPDK Step by Step Instruction found here:
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/hisaki/intel-dpdk-step-by-step-instructions" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/hisaki/intel-dpdk-step-by-step-instructions</a><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My Hello app from the DPDK examples runs fine, but I get the following error when running the l2fwd app:<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“EAL: Error – exiting with code: 1<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cause: no Ethernet ports – bye”<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The rte_eth_dev_count() call returns 0, I am using a CentOS 6.3 Virtual Machine on VMWare esxi 5.0 on a Cisco UCS C220 M3 which comes with
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Xeon E5-2600.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would really appreciate If you could provide some help to solve this issue.<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rui<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
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