From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 7 01:58:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00AF1065670 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4698FC0C for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so235498fxe.13 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:58:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=NA3glR0gU7m1Y9WWHlF0LjzvcCsTJCE/+F4HvSHyReE=; b=IIdujxzhcn6SxWNBlgnNBuNohztlnglpyLNpztfP04IK940+okOEagxjeL2D6g5XxA LKx5HqNoI7q5TJXC/QkeuCwxdEGVI8Z640vpyVxTyzY6WerYghPEG8QcZIxT/QiRscpu DkrWeXp7HIbOXejptel4qTO5seg7d2JdK5xUw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.71.155 with SMTP id h27mr197294faj.126.1315359128610; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.120.72 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:32:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:32:08 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Stephen Hocking Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:58:58 -0000 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking wrote: > Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of network > interfaces that are offered by VMWare & Virtual box. I know that on > some Linux VMs I run, performance went from 20MB/s to 30MB/s to an NFS > server which I swicthed to the virtio network interfaces. > There is this patch, but it didn't get committed for some reason. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022036.html -- Adam Vande More