From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 9 19:32:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D50106566C for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Alexander.Eichner@Sun.COM) Received: from gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com (gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com [192.18.6.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE988FC17 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:32:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fe-emea-09.sun.com (gmp-eb-lb-1-fe1.eu.sun.com [192.18.6.7] (may be forged)) by gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n89JWJXT023360 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:32:19 GMT MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-emea-09.sun.com by fe-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) id <0KPP00000XS1FK00@fe-emea-09.sun.com> for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:32:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.2.102] ([unknown] [87.187.251.49]) by fe-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0KPP003LKY9FSF10@fe-emea-09.sun.com>; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:32:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:32:03 +0200 From: Alexander Eichner In-reply-to: <4AA7AE3B.9050705@shapeshifter.se> Sender: Alexander.Eichner@Sun.COM To: Fredrik Lindberg Message-id: <1252524723.6080.2.camel@Prometheus> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 References: <4AA784D9.80405@shapeshifter.se> <4AA7AE3B.9050705@shapeshifter.se> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox network patches for FreeBSD (vboxnetflt + vboxnetadp) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:32:20 -0000 Hi Fredrik, thanks a lot for these patches. You did a great job. Everything works without problems here so far. I committed the patches to our repository with minor modifications (mostly coding style :) ). It should appear in our public svn soon. Thanks again. Regards, Alexander Eichner Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 15:31 +0200 schrieb Fredrik Lindberg: > Danny Braniss wrote: > > > > great work! > > any chance it will support PXE? > > what about throughput, at the moment iperf timet it at 120Mbits/sec > > but the host is connected at 1G. > > > > danny > > > > It supports PXE. However the OSE version of VirtualBox does only have > PXE booting on the PCnet interfaces not the Intel ones. > Also, if you're going to boot a FreeBSD kernel you'll need to patch > the etherboot code in virtualbox, otherwise it will abort with > "Unable to load file". > I don't know whether it's FreeBSDs pxeboot or etherboot that is the > offender here. > > See, for more info > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2007-April/003503.html > > > Throughput is not something I have actively looked at, there might be > something that can be optimized regarding mbuf to SG-convertion. > One source is most likely due to its dependency on the netgraph > system which causes an additional packet detour. > It uses netgraph because it's the only reliable way to hook > into the input/output path of ethernet interfaces, and > that also works properly on FreeBSD 7 and higher. > > Fredrik > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev