Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:32:03 +0200 From: Alexander Eichner <Alexander.Eichner@Sun.COM> To: Fredrik Lindberg <fli@shapeshifter.se> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox network patches for FreeBSD (vboxnetflt + vboxnetadp) Message-ID: <1252524723.6080.2.camel@Prometheus> In-Reply-To: <4AA7AE3B.9050705@shapeshifter.se> References: <4AA784D9.80405@shapeshifter.se> <E1MlMwy-000Obp-L5@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4AA7AE3B.9050705@shapeshifter.se>
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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
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