Hardware Requirements

Table 1 specifies the hardware requirements to achieve the performance depicted in the labs.

Table 1: Hardware requirements.

Components

P4-DPDK

CPU

3 cores

Memory

8 GB

Hard Disk

15 GB

Warning

You can reduce the hardware requirements in order to run the VM on your own computer. However, the performance might be compromised.

Installation

The following steps show how to install P4-DPDK on Oracle Virtual Box 7.0.

Step 1. Download and install Oracle Virtual Box 7.0.

Step 2. Download the .ova file P4-DPDK_H2_POD to be installed. In this example, P4-DPDK VM is installed.

Step 3. Open Oracle Virtual Box 7.0.

Step 4. Click on File -> Import Appliance

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Figure 1: Import Appliance.

Step 5. Browse to the folder that contains the .ova file.

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Figure 2: Selection of .ova file.

Step 6. Select the destination folder and click on Import. Wait until it finishes. This process takes about 5 minutes.

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Figure 3: Appliance settings.

Step 7. Start the virtual machine by clicking on Start.

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Figure 3: Start the virtual machine.

This concludes the installation guide.