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From: Karmarkar Suyash <skarmarkar@sonusnet.com>
Subject: DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with
 VMWare ESX 5.5
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:33:33 +0000
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Hello All,

I am trying some experiments with DPDK 1.6 and Cisco NIC - (0000:06:00.0 Ne=
twork controller: Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC [vmnic0]), on t=
he guest I am using VMXNET3 as interface/pmd and one weird behavior that is=
 see is with VMWare ESX 5.5 DPDK is not able to initialize the NIC and I ge=
t the error rte_eth_dev_start failed with error code as, but same NIC and w=
ith DPDK 1.6 version works fine with VMWare ESX 6.0 and with VMXNET3 PMD.

Two questions:

1.     Is there any dependency with VMWare version ESX (5.0/5.1/6.0) with D=
PDK Release version (1.6/1.7/2.x)? If yes can you please let me know?

2.     If we are not using the NIC in pass-through mode and we are using it=
 via Hypervisor - vmxnet3 or virtio pmd is there still a dependency for the=
 list of NIC's supported by DPDK?

Regards
Suyash