--- /dev/null
+Description: app/testpmd: link with virtio PMD when using shared libraries
+ testpmd is often used inside a VM to test the OVS PVP scenario.
+ This commit makes testpmd to link to virtio PMD when DPDK is built as
+ shared libraries too.
+Origin: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/31459/
+Forwarded: yes
+Author: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
+Last-Update: 2017-11-17
+--- a/app/test-pmd/Makefile
++++ b/app/test-pmd/Makefile
+@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SOFTNIC),y)
+ LDLIBS += -lrte_pmd_softnic
+ endif
+
++ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_PMD),y)
++LDLIBS += -lrte_pmd_virtio
++endif
++
+ endif
+
+ CFLAGS_cmdline.o := -D_GNU_SOURCE