Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:57:21 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, luke-lists@hybrid-logic.co.uk Subject: Re: Virtio drivers for FreeBSD on KVM Message-ID: <E1Pa7O5-0008rH-NQ@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <1293726772.5853.1348.camel@pow>
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> With more cloud infrastructure providers using KVM than ever before, the > importance of having FreeBSD performant as a guest on these > infrastructures [1], [2], [3] is increasing. It seems that using Virtio > drivers give a pretty significant performance boost [4], [5]. > > There was a NetBSD driver, and there seems to (have been) some work > happening to port this to DragonFly BSD at [6] and [7] -- does anyone > know if this code is stable, or if it has stalled, or if anyone's > working on it? Are the virtio devices provided by Linux KVM the same as those provided by VirtualBox ? Certainly their website says that the networking one is. How about giving the drivers provided by /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions a try and see if they will work with KVM ? -pete.
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