On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 23:08 -0500, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > 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
Vmware has a nice trick to online change an emulated amd nic into a pv mode nic. > 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. This is just a newer device with some coalescing abilities and tso, pv driver can always be better since they are not bound to any specification. btw: I wonder when qemu will get virtio drivers. > > the next step would be to emulate LSI SCSI chips, eh? >
