Thanks for the insight. It’s a shame that MS doesn’t bundle the RedHat drivers in the installation image.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 00:54, Jason Tubnor <ja...@tubnor.net> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 20:07, Robert Crowston <crows...@protonmail.com> wrote: > >> nvme is faster than virtio-blk? It seems strange that a paravirtualized >> driver would be slower. Is that because of the regression you mention? > > Not saying it is slower, just not any faster than the NVMe presentation that > we have discovered in production. NVMe is the general direction storage is > taking, doesn't require the drivers to be injected at installation time and > lower usability friction. > > The regression was due to a bug in the virtio-stor code that would nuke your > storage as soon as the driver loaded after upgrading it the following boot. > That was discussed on a bhyve call last year. It is no longer an issue with > the latest driver if you wish to continue to use virtio-stor. > > Cheers, > > Jason. _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
