DPDK now requires more recent instructions than qemu emulates by default on some systems. You may encounter errors such as: ./wrlinux-x/setup.sh --machines=qemux86 --templates feature/kernel-ovp-guest,feature/dpdk --layer meta-dpdk \ --distros wrlinux-ovp --dl-layers --all-layers --repo-verbose --verbose --accept-eula=yes . ./oe-init-build-env bitbake wrlinux-image-ovp-guest runqemu qemux86 wrlinux-image-ovp-guest slirp nographic root@qemux86:~# dpdk-procinfo [ 98.353410] traps: dpdk-procinfo[354] trap invalid opcode ip:8093897 sp:bff75580 error:0 in dpdk-procinfo[8048000+336000] Illegal instruction (core dumped)