NIC

VirtualBox supports emulated e1000 NIC for VM while VMware fusion does not. VMware Fusion’s VM setting does not support configuring of NIC HW type. The NIC HW is PCnet32 which is not supported by DPDK. However, we can change NIC HW type by editing VM configuration file directly. Refer : How to emulate 10 Gbps NIC in a VMware Fusion VM Edit vmx file to VMX file is in where vmware image located