VirtualBox 3.1 BETA - VirtIO - Part II FYI: VirtIO devices has not only network, but also block device (or storage). It acts similarly to SCSI controller, but has more optimizations. This again is supported by both Linux and Windows guests. VirtIO-block can be used as a bootable device.
VirtIO network, in my own benchmarks, achieves 1.1 Gbps of bandwidth between Linux host and Linux guest. (if the kernels are configured properly, otherwise performance drops below Intel E1000 levels). 3. Documentation: section 6.1 needs some update for VirtIO. As for Linux distros, that do work: openSUSE 11.0+, Fedora 9+, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS+, RHEL 5.3+. First three has kernel 2.6.24+ and the last one has custom driver backport to 2.6.18 by Red Hat. "+" means this version and up. -- -"Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
