[dpdk-users] How to test DPDK port in VM workstation player

[Vijayakumar Athithan]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:37 AM Vijayakumar Athithan <
athithanvijay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:44 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2021-03-02 17:51, Vijayakumar Athithan:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have been exploring DPDK 19.xx for a firewall use case demo. Over the
>> > last few weeks I was able to understand how to run testpmd, dpdk-pdump,
>> > basicfwd. I was able to build DPDK, compile examples and bind the DPDK
>> > drivers to NIC interfaces as well using dpdk-setup.sh.
>> >
>> > I struggle to test DPDK applications as my laptop NIC is not supported
>> by
>> > DPDK. Then I used a VMware workstation player where host OS is Windows10
>> > and guest OS is Ubuntu 16.xx. In VM I get e1000 (  Intel Corporation
>> 82540EM)
>> > as ethernet controller.
>> >
>> > I get I/O error when I try to run DPDK applications as there is known
>> > limitation on using  Intel Corporation 82540EM based on one of the
>> > references.
>> > Is there way to change e1000-82540EM into other supported NIC in vm
>> player ?
>>
>> Hi Vijayakumar,
>>
>> You're looking for vmxnet3, VMWare-native paravirtualized device.
>> There's a vmxnet3 PMD in DPDK.
>> Adapter type should be configurable in VM properties.
>>
>>
> Hi  Dmitry,
>
> Thanks for your inputs. Let me try with your inputs and get back to you.
>
> Thanks,
> B.Vijayakumar Athithan
>

I tried the Ubuntu 18.x version with DPDK 19.xx. e1000 is working there.
Not sure what I missed earlier. Thanks for inputs.

Thanks,
B.Vijayakumar Athithan