On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote: > Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbps.
very nice! in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't include net or HD drivers for linux! i was surprised, but it simply said that using e1000 emulation on 64bit linux was optimised enough. since i saw good performance (no hard benchmarks, but definitely not bad); i thought that they do some paravirtualizification at runtime as part of their software recompiling (because they're much older than HVM-capable processors). now it seems that there are higher-level hardware that can be emulated far more efficiently than the original set of QEMU hardware. the next step would be to emulate LSI SCSI chips, eh? -- Javier
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