Looking through old bug tickets ... have you already tried to use vhost- net? That should be one of the fastest ways of networking with QEMU as far as I know...
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441443 Title: Is there a way to create a 10G network interface for VMs in KVM2.0? Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: We have installed & configured the KVM 2.0 (qemu-kvm 2.0.0+dfsg- 2ubuntu1.10) on Ubuntu 14.04. The physical server is connected to 10G network, KVM is configured in Bridged mode But the issue is, when we create Network interface on VMs, we have only 1G device as an options for vmhosts. Is this the limit of the KVM or is there a way to create a 10G network interface for VMs? Available device models E1000 Ne2k_pci Pcnet Rtl8139 virtio Please find the network configuration details Source device : Host device vnet1 (Bridge ‘br0’) Device model : virtio Network configuration in the host /etc/network/interfaces auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 10.221.x.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.221.x.0 broadcast 10.221.x.255 gateway 10.221.x.1 # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed dns-nameservers X.X.X.X dns-search XXX.NET bridge_ports em1 bridge_fd 0 bridge_stp off bridge_maxwait 0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1441443/+subscriptions