Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Dhirendra Pal Singh wrote: > I got the latest snapshot of qemu and sure enough there was e1000 > driver support in it.. Though I didn't see much difference between > RealTek Driver Vs e1000... > Following was the test result... > > Copying 1GB file > real3m48.284s > user0m0.072s > sys

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-14 Thread Dhirendra Pal Singh
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:30 -0700, Dhirendra Pal Singh wrote: > > I tried e1000 and it says "qemu: Unsupported NIC: e1000" :( Did I > > miss something.. ? > > > > I downloaded the latest code base for qemu, and I see the

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-12 Thread Dor Laor
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:30 -0700, Dhirendra Pal Singh wrote: > I tried e1000 and it says "qemu: Unsupported NIC: e1000" :( Did I > miss something.. ? > > I downloaded the latest code base for qemu, and I see the following > lines in qemu-doc.texi > > * > @code{i82551},

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-11 Thread Dhirendra Pal Singh
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jorge Lucángeli Obes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your help.. man > > > > So, the performance numbers with public bridge, actually increases the > > performance by many folds. Now I can copy the same 1 gb file in 1.30mins.. > > which is awesome.

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-11 Thread Jorge Lucángeli Obes
> Thanks a lot for your help.. man > > So, the performance numbers with public bridge, actually increases the > performance by many folds. Now I can copy the same 1 gb file in 1.30 mins.. > which is awesome. Cool! > Now a dumb question (sorry :( ), but how do I use e1000 nic device and > driver.

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-11 Thread Dhirendra Pal Singh
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:13 -0700, Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Dhirendra Pal Singh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > I am trying to evaluate, kvm at my work for vi

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-11 Thread Javier Guerra
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We published virtio network drivers for Linux but not yet for Windows. > Our virtio drivers for windows are almost done (for rev#1), we'll surely > release the binaries for them. great!! no need to fool around with xen/vmwa

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-10 Thread Dor Laor
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:13 -0700, Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Dhirendra Pal Singh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I am trying to evaluate, kvm at my work for virtual support in our product.. > > > > I had setup up a windows guest, in my ubuntu

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-10 Thread Dhirendra Pal Singh
sure.. I am going to do bridged networking next thing and re-run my test and see where I get.. Thanks for the info... I am using rtl8139 driver as windows 2003 server wasn't recognizing the default one... * the very best would be to have paravirtualized drivers on windows... there's some

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-10 Thread Dhirendra Pal Singh
Thanks for the tip.. okay.. I am going to set up the public bridge in that case.. and see what can I do.. Yes I am being forced to use windows guest... :( I am a die hard linux fan and hasn't used windows for almost 3 -4 years now.. Will update you guys again after I do the test.. Thanks for a

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-10 Thread Jorge Lucángeli Obes
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Dhirendra Pal Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am trying to evaluate, kvm at my work for virtual support in our product.. > > I had setup up a windows guest, in my ubuntu host, on hardware with Intel VT > support. > > Now when I try to download a 1

[kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-10 Thread Dhirendra Pal Singh
Hi Guys, I am trying to evaluate, kvm at my work for virtual support in our product.. I had setup up a windows guest, in my ubuntu host, on hardware with Intel VT support. Now when I try to download a 1 GB file present, inside windows virtual machine, using samba, from a another linux box, I ge