Re: [Qemu-devel] Communication between Windows 7 host and Linux guest

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:15:18PM +0000, Gripon Sébastien wrote:
> I have the need to communicate efficiently between Windows 7 host and linux 
> guest. I tried first to use an IP socket communication using TAP driver on 
> Windows. Unfortunately, we reach a maximum of 4 Mbits/s where I would need 
> faster communication (more than 10 Mb/s). I don’t know yet if the TAP driver 
> is slow.

That seems very slow, 100 Mbit/s should definitely be achievable.  But I
have never tried TAP on Windows.

Can you share the QEMU command-line and the benchmark used to measure
this result?

Stefan