.. toctree:: .. _vhost01: Prerequisites ------------- For this use case we will assume FD.io VPP is installed. We will also assume the user can create and start basic virtual machines. This use case will use the linux virsh commands. For more information on virsh refer to `virsh man page `_. The image that we use is based on an Ubuntu cloud image downloaded from: `Ubuntu Cloud Images `_. All FD.io VPP commands are being run from a su shell. .. _vhosttopo: Topology --------- In this case we will use 2 systems. One system we will be running standard linux, the other will be running FD.io VPP. .. figure:: /_images/vhost-topo.png :alt: Vhost Use Case Topology Creating The Virtual Interface ------------------------------ We will start on the system running FD.io VPP and show that no Virtual interfaces have been created. We do this using the :ref:`showintcommand` command. Notice we do not have any virtual interfaces. We do have an interface (TenGigabitEthernet86/0/0) that is up. This interface is connected to a system running, in our example standard linux. We will use this system to verify our connectivity to our VM with ping. .. code-block:: console $ sudo bash # vppctl _______ _ _ _____ ___ __/ __/ _ \ (_)__ | | / / _ \/ _ \ _/ _// // / / / _ \ | |/ / ___/ ___/ /_/ /____(_)_/\___/ |___/_/ /_/ vpp# clear interfaces vpp# show int Name Idx State Counter Count TenGigabitEthernet86/0/0 1 up TenGigabitEthernet86/0/1 2 down local0 0 down vpp# For more information on the interface commands refer to: :ref:`intcommands` The next step will be to create the virtual port using the ``createvhostuser`` command. This command will create the virtual port in VPP and create a linux socket that the VM will use to connect to VPP. The port can be created using VPP as the socket server or client. Creating the VPP port: .. code-block:: console vpp# create vhost socket /tmp/vm00.sock VirtualEthernet0/0/0 vpp# show int Name Idx State Counter Count TenGigabitEthernet86/0/0 1 up TenGigabitEthernet86/0/1 2 down VirtualEthernet0/0/0 3 down local0 0 down vpp# Notice the interface **VirtualEthernet0/0/0**. In this example we created the virtual interface as a client. We can get more detail on the vhost connection with the ``showvhost`` command. .. code-block:: console vpp# show vhost Virtio vhost-user interfaces Global: coalesce frames 32 time 1e-3 number of rx virtqueues in interrupt mode: 0 Interface: VirtualEthernet0/0/0 (ifindex 3) virtio_net_hdr_sz 12 features mask (0xffffffffffffffff): features (0x58208000): VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF (15) VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE (21) VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT (27) VIRTIO_F_INDIRECT_DESC (28) VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES (30) protocol features (0x3) VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_MQ (0) VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_LOG_SHMFD (1) socket filename /tmp/vm00.sock type client errno "No such file or directory" rx placement: tx placement: spin-lock thread 0 on vring 0 thread 1 on vring 0 Memory regions (total 0) Notice **No such file or directory** and **Memory regions (total 0)**. This is because the VM has not been created yet.