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Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10
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Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10 |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 06:07:58 +0000 |
The kernel version is 3.0.0.12
The Qemu version is 1.0.0(we upgraded it)
What version of kernel do we need to upgrade?
-----Original Message-----
From: mathslinux [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:03 PM
To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10
Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 <address@hidden> writes:
> We recently ran an Ubuntu 11.10 VM which was installed with VirtIO NIC
> driver. The VirtIO net driver came from the Ubuntu's default package. The VM
> we installed was configured as a bridge mode. When we ran the Iperf test
> against the VM, the network interface of the VM was fairly unstable.
> Sometimes, the network interface of the VM could not receive the packets and
> we needed to bright the network interface down and up in order to make it
> work. After we replaced the VirtIo Net driver with ne2k driver and it worked
> quite stably now.
>
> We know that the performance of virtIO is much better than ne2k in virtual
> environment. We would like to use virtio driver instead. If this is the
> virtio driver issue, can you tell us where to get the latest virtIO driver
> for Ubuntu VM? Otherwise, tell us how to make the virtio net driver work in
> Ubuntu VM if you have ever had similar issue before.
>
> The version of Qemu installed in Ubuntu is 0.14.1.
>
The virtio driver is implemented in the guest operating system, it's a kernel
module, so what is your kernel version? Maybe you need a kernel of higher
version.
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- [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, mathslinux, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10,
Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04