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Subject: Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?
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On 7 September 2011 09:32, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking
> <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of =A0network
>> 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.ht=
ml

Has this been used/tested by others? I see a reply from you.



Adrian