I'm just starting to take a look at guest networking performance and am a little disappointed. I'm comparing two setups: Host: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Guest: CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Host: CentOS 5.5 x86_64 kvm running libvirt Guest: CentOS 5.5 x86_64 The guests are essentially identical except that I'm running the Microsoft Linux Integration Components synthetic drivers on the windows hosted VM. The libvirt setup uses bridged networking. Running bonnie++ on a nfs mounted filesystem on each guest I'm seeing the libvirt hosted guest get between 16%-35% of the performance of the Hyper-V guest. Is this expected? Is there anything I can do to increase network performance of the kvm guest? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com