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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:20:02 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bq%2BTcrZZb5o51F4pvLtxKM%2BNvO6SdVEQk_UMLLYSF8JfK6gpg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:

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>
>  If you create a sparse file for the bhyve raw disk (e.g. with truncate
> -s), du will show the actual blocks used rather than the total size.


But can I truncate an already existing image disk (downloaded nanobsd image
as example) ?


>   There is an em(4) emulation slowly being worked on. It should also be
> possible to add altq functionality to FreeBSD's virtio net driver.


Adding altq(4) to vtnet(4) should be a better idea.


>  For internal-only networks, there will most likely be a user-space
> ethernet switch (ala VDE) that bhyve network interfaces can be pointed at.


Great: Why not the high-perf netmap VALE switch ?
Because with a dummy TCP iperf bench between bhyve guests report only 254
Mbits/sec.

Regards,



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