Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-05-15T08:02:23Z

Dor Laor schrieb:

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>>> FWIW, virtio-net is much better with my patches applied. The difference
>>> between the e1000 and virtio-net is that e1000 consumes almost twice as
>>> much CPU as virtio-net so in my testing, the performance improvement
>>> with virtio-net is about 2x. We were loosing about 20-30% throughput
>>> because of the delays in handling incoming packets.
>> Do you by chance have any recent numbers on disk performance (i.e., Windows
>> guest vs Linux host)?
>>
>>
>
> At the moment there is no pv block driver for Windows guests. (there is
> for linux)
> You can use scsi for windows, it should perform well.

How well, when compared to "bare metal"? Or when compared to a Linux guest with
a pv block driver? Do you have any numbers?

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Tomasz Chmielewski