Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer

On 9/6/11 8:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

On 7 September 2011 09:32, Adam Vande More  wrote:

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking
wrote:


Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of  network
interfaces that are offered by VMWare&  Virtual box. I know that on
some Linux VMs I run, performance went from 20MB/s to 30MB/s to an NFS
server which I swicthed to the virtio network interfaces.


There is this patch, but it didn't get committed for some reason.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022036.html

Has this been used/tested by others? I see a reply from you.


The BHyve guys are implementing virtio drivers and have looked at both 
these drivers and others.

I don't know what their plans are..

you should send to virtualizat...@freebsd.org (cc'd and redirected) to 
get up to date info.



Adrian
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Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 7 September 2011 09:32, Adam Vande More  wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking
> wrote:
>
>> Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of  network
>> interfaces that are offered by VMWare & Virtual box. I know that on
>> some Linux VMs I run, performance went from 20MB/s to 30MB/s to an NFS
>> server which I swicthed to the virtio network interfaces.
>>
>
> There is this patch, but it didn't get committed for some reason.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022036.html

Has this been used/tested by others? I see a reply from you.



Adrian
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Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking
wrote:

> Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of  network
> interfaces that are offered by VMWare & Virtual box. I know that on
> some Linux VMs I run, performance went from 20MB/s to 30MB/s to an NFS
> server which I swicthed to the virtio network interfaces.
>

There is this patch, but it didn't get committed for some reason.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022036.html

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