Greetings Laine,
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 at 1:13 AM From: "Laine Stump" <laine@redhat.com> To: libvirt-users@redhat.com Cc: daggs <daggs@gmx.com> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] connecting host and guest vm using a dummy nic
On 05/02/2018 01:28 PM, daggs wrote:
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 at 8:09 PM From: "Laine Stump" <laine@redhat.com>
Also, if virtio works, then *definitely* use that instead of e1000 - the performance will be much better and overhead much lower.
so any network test will do?
Do you mean to test and see if virtio-net is acceptable for your guest OS? If the guest OS has the driver for virtio-net, then definitely you should use it. I've never heard of a case of any of the drivers that emulate real hardware performing anywhere near as well as virtio-net.
no, I mean test the virtual nic speed, will ipref work? also, in the guest os, the module attached to the virtual nic is virtio-pci, is that expected?