From nobody Thu Oct 2 13:15:47 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-net@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ccskl1Xsxz69q0h for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thj@freebsd.org) Received: from fhigh-a2-smtp.messagingengine.com (fhigh-a2-smtp.messagingengine.com [103.168.172.153]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4ccskl150Cz4103; Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thj@freebsd.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from phl-compute-03.internal (phl-compute-03.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailfhigh.phl.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CAA140003D; Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:16:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phl-imap-17 ([10.202.2.105]) by phl-compute-03.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:16:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:content-type:date:date:feedback-id:feedback-id :from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:reply-to:subject:subject:to:to:x-me-proxy :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; t=1759410990; x= 1759497390; bh=6lKFq1PHC9k+0vfkCGUo66lpsBRDcSwBYgnGT6ksSWc=; b=P LjjGMdGGufDIyuFGeVP04/k/jJlAJUp3dJaGFU2XBMm/I9PRNwPvYnz0IHT1DSTo OJbGotRZCBrI3N9yZ1gy7Y33sTrLQZ8EMwRIjxCDOidDuwkSJk60DEzoAR09+6fM ugckAXmxcposZfzwXWqlIKhlArxe9phF234qvZNEFdGgb5tzQLpC1BMHoTQrJPLL atRbQCmvAl03YvrGOmSDgOJljHjXEv1C6ge3csZnM4d7s4fJZwmGFLYj0qubDq7x mLrg2HFn7S5jcSPGk+7TyMQs3VY1vSpzBxCb0wPrYf0vVXMXb/36gYRA7GlSPObg uWKF51KQyluyEQINaCLBA== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeeffedrtdeggdekieduvdcutefuodetggdotefrod ftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecuuegr ihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenucfjug hrpefoggffhffvvefkjghfufgtgfesthejredtredttdenucfhrhhomhepfdfvohhmucfl ohhnvghsfdcuoehthhhjsehfrhgvvggsshgurdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpe evfeeifefffeelkeduleehuefhgfejgeelteegtdegheeiiedviedtudejuddtgeenucev lhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhhjsehfrh gvvggsshgurdhorhhgpdhnsggprhgtphhtthhopeefpdhmohguvgepshhmthhpohhuthdp rhgtphhtthhopegttgesfhhrvggvsghsugdrohhrghdprhgtphhtthhopehfrhgvvggssh guqdhnvghtsehfrhgvvggsshgurdhorhhgpdhrtghpthhtohepthhomhdrshhmhihthhes fihirhgvlhgvshhstghonhhnvggtthdrvghu X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: ib75146ab:Fastmail Received: by mailuser.phl.internal (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5908AC40072; Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:16:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: ABYpdeK75kYB Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:15:47 +0100 From: "Tom Jones" To: "Tom Smyth" , "Cheng Cui" Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: VPP on FreeBSD Stable 14.3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:151847, ipnet:103.168.172.0/24, country:AU] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4ccskl150Cz4103 On Thu, Oct 2, 2025, at 13:43, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi folks, > > I cant use the Bhyve Hypervisor just yet but I would like to use > Freebsd as a VPP Guest on Proxmox, > > I think perhaps the the missing /etc/vpp/startup.conf with sensible > defaults for small vms might help, Ill do some testing and see how I > geton, > > > the concern I would have is that a new user of FreeBSD with VPP I can > say the install process is more simple which is nice, but the > consumption of all resources of the vm might need to be curtailed > > so allow vpp to run on (Number of Cores -1) so there is resources > available for normal FreeBSD stuff, > Sitting in a tight loop is the default behaviour of vpp (so is using a single core). You can override this with a startup.conf file like: unix { interactive cli-listen /run/vpp/cli1.sock gid $(id -g) poll-sleep-usec 100 # exec /home/tj/code/vpp/vpp-github/startup.vpp } cpu { main-core 0 corelist-workers 1-7 } Documentation on the dials to turn for vpp is a bit lacking. Tom