[dpdk-dev] vhost user examples

[Benoît Canet]

The Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 à 16:33:19 (+0000), Xie, Huawei wrote :
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benoît Canet [mailto:benoit.canet at irqsave.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:11 PM
> > To: Xie, Huawei; dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: vhost user examples
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Xie,
> > 
> > I would be interested in alpha testing the vhost user patchset.
> > 
> > Is there an up to date example of how to use it ?
> > 
> 
> vHost has a parameter called base_name. Temporarily you could specify --base-name as
> the unix domain socket path, and set it in the qemu command line as socket path.
> recommended qemu command line for memory and vhost configuration:
> -m $MEM -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=${MEM}M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem  -mem-prealloc
> -chardev socket,id=char0,path=$sock_path  -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce \
> -device virtio-net-pci,mac=52:54:00:12:34:11,netdev=mynet1

Thanks,

Is the upstream vhost example in master already patched for this ?
Or does it still required some patches ?

Best regards

Benoît

> 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Benoît