Re: [Qemu-devel] [wiki] New wiki page - vhost-user setup with ovs/dpdk backend

[Flavio Leitner]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:51:19PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The page describes how to setup an environment that allows testing/developing
> vhost-user using ovs (with dpdk) as backend.
> 
> A regular pc machine can be used, no need for several hosts, a 'dpdk enabled' 
> NIC or 1G huge-pages.
> 
> The goal is to connect guests' virtio-net devices having vhost-user backend 
> to OVS dpdkvhostuser ports
> and be able to run any kind of network traffic between them.
> 
> The page can be found at:
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/vhost-user-ovs-dpdk
> 
> I want to keep it as simple as possible.
> If you see steps that can be skipped or unneeded configuration please let me 
> know
> or feel free to update the page.

I gave a quick look and found couple issues.  It seems to be missing
the installing steps for qemu.  Also the eventfd_link module is only
needed for vhost-cuse, so you don't need to build/install/load at all.

Thanks for doing that Marcel!
fbl