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(a)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.