Commit 1abfb704 authored by Jakub Klimczak's avatar Jakub Klimczak Committed by Henrik Brix Andersen
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doc: connectivity: networking: Mention VIRTIO Network device in doc 



Add instructions on running echo_server using the VIRTIO Network device
in the QEMU Ethernet documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Klimczak <jklimczak@internships.antmicro.com>
parent 3433a45d

doc/connectivity/networking/qemu_eth_setup.rst

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@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ driver for QEMU connectivity: 
  Driver is called ``smsc911x`` in Zephyr source tree.

* For ``qemu_cortex_a53``, ``Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet driver``

  Ethernet driver is selected by default.

* Additionally, the :zephyr:code-sample:`sockets-echo-server` sample contains

  overlay files for the VIRTIO Network device on ``qemu_x86_64``.



Step 1 - Create Ethernet interface

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@@ -85,6 +87,16 @@ In terminal #2, type: 
   :goals: run

   :compact:



Alternatively, if you decided to use the VIRTIO Network device on qemu_x86_64:



.. zephyr-app-commands::

   :zephyr-app: samples/net/sockets/echo_server

   :host-os: unix

   :board: qemu_x86_64

   :gen-args: -DDTC_OVERLAY_FILE=virtnet.overlay -DEXTRA_CONF_FILE=overlay-virtnet.conf

   :goals: run

   :compact:



Exit QEMU by pressing :kbd:`CTRL+A` :kbd:`x`.



.. _`net-tools`: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/net-tools

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