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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 14:17:17 +0800 |
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 <=
- 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, 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