[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] e1000 emulation code

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote:
> Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbps.

very nice!

in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance 
performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't 
include net or HD drivers for linux!  i was surprised, but it simply said 
that using e1000 emulation on 64bit linux was optimised enough.  since i saw 
good performance (no hard benchmarks, but definitely not bad); i thought that 
they do some paravirtualizification at runtime as part of their software 
recompiling (because they're much older than HVM-capable processors).

now it seems that there are higher-level hardware that can be emulated far 
more efficiently than the original set of QEMU hardware.

the next step would be to emulate LSI SCSI chips, eh?

-- 
Javier

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