Brian Jackson <iggy@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Friday 28 August 2009 01:14:42 pm Jon Fairbairn wrote: >> I'm experimenting with a virtual router. I did this a few years ago with >> Xen and it worked well enough, but then fedora changed and it stopped >> working, so I gave up for a while. Now I have a machine that supports >> hardware virtualisation, I thought I'd try again. >> >> The setup was done through virt-manager. The network between the host >> and guest is a virtual bridge. What I've been trying to do is to assign >> a USB cable modem to the guest, > > > This is probably your problem here. KVM only emulates a usb1.1 > controller, that shouldn't be a problem as the cable modem is only a usb 1.1 device. > and from all reports, it doesn't really do that very well. Not very well? We're talking about a factor of *FIFTY* slow down here. If I'd implemented the driver in a 1980s lazy functional language I would have only expected a factor of ten :-P ;-). > There have been numerous reports of poor performance even for a usb1.1 > device. You should check the archives to see if there was ever any > kind of tips or resolution to some of those problems. I had a look, but I couldn't find anything helpful. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong things? -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
