On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:41:56AM +0200, Tobias Wigand wrote: > Hi, > > In case someone is interested, I have tried to run a comparison > between the new Virtio network driver and e1000 emulation. > This is more of a real life home usage example, I have used my > personal firewall setup for the tests. Your results may vary. I have > issued pfctl -Fa for the tests. The tests were done against an old > Dell D600 running Ubuntu. > I have not run any tests on the storage driver, but using it the KVM > guest feels much faster, especially booting or shutting down is > really fast for me.
Little OT - most KVM has libvirt as backend, if anybody would like to help with an issue of libvirt on OpenBSD, check here (and thanks!): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781374 jirib