Yes, I saw that page too. But our current kernel version meets the kernel requirement. Why do we need to upgrade it?
-----Original Message----- From: Dunrong Huang [mailto:riegama...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:26 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10 2012/6/4 Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 <charles.t...@cloudena.com>: > I am just curious about this issue. Is there any document mentioning the > lowest version of the kernel to be supported by VirtIO? > See http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dunrong Huang [mailto:riegama...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:17 PM > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10 > > 2012/6/4 Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 <charles.t...@cloudena.com>: >> The kernel version is 3.0.0.12 >> The Qemu version is 1.0.0(we upgraded it) >> >> What version of kernel do we need to upgrade? > The latest version is v3.4, so you can try and upgrade to v3.1, v3.2 or v3.3, > and test it. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mathslinux [mailto:riegama...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:03 PM >> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 >> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10 >> >> Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 <charles.t...@cloudena.com> writes: >> >>> We recently ran an Ubuntu 11.10 VM which was installed with VirtIO NIC >>> driver. The VirtIO net driver came from the Ubuntu's default package. The >>> VM we installed was configured as a bridge mode. When we ran the Iperf test >>> against the VM, the network interface of the VM was fairly unstable. >>> Sometimes, the network interface of the VM could not receive the packets >>> and we needed to bright the network interface down and up in order to make >>> it work. After we replaced the VirtIo Net driver with ne2k driver and it >>> worked quite stably now. >>> >>> We know that the performance of virtIO is much better than ne2k in virtual >>> environment. We would like to use virtio driver instead. If this is the >>> virtio driver issue, can you tell us where to get the latest virtIO driver >>> for Ubuntu VM? Otherwise, tell us how to make the virtio net driver work in >>> Ubuntu VM if you have ever had similar issue before. >>> >>> The version of Qemu installed in Ubuntu is 0.14.1. >>> >> The virtio driver is implemented in the guest operating system, it's a >> kernel module, so what is your kernel version? Maybe you need a kernel of >> higher version. > > -- linuxer and emacser and pythoner living in beijing blog: http://mathslinux.org twitter: https://twitter.com/mathslinux google+: https://plus.google.com/118129852578326338750
