Greetings Laine, > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 at 9:39 AM > From: daggs <daggs@xxxxxxx> > To: "Laine Stump" <laine@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: connecting host and guest vm using a dummy nic > > Greetings Laine, > > > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 at 1:13 AM > > From: "Laine Stump" <laine@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > Cc: daggs <daggs@xxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: connecting host and guest vm using a dummy nic > > > > On 05/02/2018 01:28 PM, daggs wrote: > > > > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 at 8:09 PM > > >> From: "Laine Stump" <laine@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > >> > > >> Also, if virtio works, then *definitely* use that instead of e1000 - the > > >> performance will be much better and overhead much lower. > > >> > > >> > > > so any network test will do? > > > > > > > > > Do you mean to test and see if virtio-net is acceptable for your guest > > OS? If the guest OS has the driver for virtio-net, then definitely you > > should use it. I've never heard of a case of any of the drivers that > > emulate real hardware performing anywhere near as well as virtio-net. > > > > no, I mean test the virtual nic speed, will ipref work? > also, in the guest os, the module attached to the virtual nic is virtio-pci, is that expected? > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > root@router:/# iperf -s ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 10.1.0.138 port 5001 connected with 10.1.0.212 port 57590 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 33.1 GBytes 28.4 Gbits/sec looks very good indeed. thanks for all the help. _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
