Installing the Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software Package

Getting Started with Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software
Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Getting Started
Getting Started Guide
Capture Software Version
Link-Virtualization™ Software 4.5

Set up your Linux environment and install the Napatech software.

Before you begin

For each host, make sure that you have:
  • A working Linux environment, with the following packages installed:
    • Linux kernel 4.18 or newer
    • Linux kernel headers
    • Python 2.7 or newer
    • coreutils
    • gcc 4.9 or newer
    • make (gnu)
    • numactl
    Note: Only Linux installations are supported.
  • The Link-Virtualization™ Software package, including:
    • DPDK with the Napatech PMD
    • OVS with the Napatech modifications

Procedure

  1. Ensure that the required packages are installed.

    This is an example of the commands to install these prerequisites on CentOS 8.

    dnf group install "Development Tools"
dnf install kernel-devel numactl numactl-devel
  2. Install the Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software by extracting the distribution package. 
    tar zxf ntvrt_package_<version>.tar.gz
    where:
    • version is the Link-Virtualization™ Software version identifier.

    This is an example command:

    tar zxf ntvrt_package_4.5.0-linux.tar.gz