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Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10
From: |
Dunrong Huang |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10 |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:25:39 +0800 |
2012/6/4 Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究�l展部 <address@hidden>:
> I am just curious about this issue. Is there any document mentioning the
> lowest version of the kernel to be supported by VirtIO?
>
See http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dunrong Huang [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:17 PM
> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究�l展部
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10
>
> 2012/6/4 Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究�l展部 <address@hidden>:
>> The kernel version is 3.0.0.12
>> The Qemu version is 1.0.0(we upgraded it)
>>
>> What version of kernel do we need to upgrade?
> The latest version is v3.4, so you can try and upgrade to v3.1, v3.2 or v3.3,
> and test it.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mathslinux [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:03 PM
>> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究�l展部
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10
>>
>> Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究�l展部 <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> We recently ran an Ubuntu 11.10 VM which was installed with VirtIO NIC
>>> driver. The VirtIO net driver came from the Ubuntu's default package. The
>>> VM we installed was configured as a bridge mode. When we ran the Iperf test
>>> against the VM, the network interface of the VM was fairly unstable.
>>> Sometimes, the network interface of the VM could not receive the packets
>>> and we needed to bright the network interface down and up in order to make
>>> it work. After we replaced the VirtIo Net driver with ne2k driver and it
>>> worked quite stably now.
>>>
>>> We know that the performance of virtIO is much better than ne2k in virtual
>>> environment. We would like to use virtio driver instead. If this is the
>>> virtio driver issue, can you tell us where to get the latest virtIO driver
>>> for Ubuntu VM? Otherwise, tell us how to make the virtio net driver work in
>>> Ubuntu VM if you have ever had similar issue before.
>>>
>>> The version of Qemu installed in Ubuntu is 0.14.1.
>>>
>> The virtio driver is implemented in the guest operating system, it's a
>> kernel module, so what is your kernel version? Maybe you need a kernel of
>> higher version.
>
>
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- [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, mathslinux, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10,
Dunrong Huang <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Charles . Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10, Dunrong Huang, 2012/06/04