Step by step DPDK experiments

This tutorial aims to build an experimental environment of DPDK 23.07. By following this tutorial, you can

• Build DPDK test enviroment in ONE VM.
• Make concrete understanding of DPDK.

However, it is NOT for performance purpose.

1. Hello DPDK world
2. NIC Binding
3. Building Containers
4. Test pktgen-dpdk
5. Layer2 forwarding

Enviroment

My test environment is

Guest OS: Archlinux (as of Oct 2023)
Hypervisor: VMware VirtualBox with KVM Para-virtualization enabled
Host OS: Archlinux
NIC(s) : 4 * virtual Intel Pro 1000 MT Server (82545EM)
HugePages Configuration : 1024 * 2MB Pagesize Mounted @ /mnt/hugepages on both host and guest Machines.

This tutorial works according to my exprience, and should also apply to other virtual machines, such as debian/ubuntu and centos, which may need some customization.