INSTALL.DPDK: Notes on running ovs-vswitchd/dpdk inside a VM
authorOleg Strikov <oleg.strikov@canonical.com>
Fri, 8 May 2015 19:05:13 +0000 (12:05 -0700)
committerPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Tue, 12 May 2015 16:14:12 +0000 (09:14 -0700)
commit9899125aaae9f0634f43307cc0ff72f5afb287bb
treef7e2837d7e0a26fd577653bb89d793388ff9ef6d
parent95e9881f843896751a76481cfe7869e2c0c1270b
INSTALL.DPDK: Notes on running ovs-vswitchd/dpdk inside a VM

Additional configuration is required if you want to run ovs-vswitchd
with DPDK backend inside a QEMU virtual machine. This happens because,
by default, virtio NIC provided to the guest doesn't support multiple
TX queues which are required by ovs-vswitchd/dpdk. This commit updates
INSTALL.DPDK.md to provide guidelines on how to enable support for
multiple TX queues using QEMU command line and Libvirt config file.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Strikov <oleg.strikov@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
INSTALL.DPDK.md