Martin Troester
2010-Feb-15 20:56 UTC
[Xen-users] Comparison of network device models for HVM?
Hi, I am searching for some details on the various network device models for HVM DomU use. End-user documentation seems very scarce... So far I understand that besides the default realtek RTL8139 at least Intel e100/e1000 models are available, but I don''t find anything about stability or performance of those implementations. Can you please give me a hand and point me to some publicly available resources? Thanks! Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-Feb-16 12:09 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Comparison of network device models for HVM?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Martin Troester wrote:> Hi, > > I am searching for some details on the various network device models for > HVM DomU use. End-user documentation seems very scarce... So far I > understand that besides the default realtek RTL8139 at least Intel > e100/e1000 models are available, but I don''t find anything about > stability or performance of those implementations. > > Can you please give me a hand and point me to some publicly available > resources? >I just wrote a chapter to wiki about this: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems Let me know what to add, if you have comments. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Martin Tröster
2010-Feb-17 15:36 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Comparison of network device models for HVM?
Pasi,> I just wrote a chapter to wiki about this: > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems > > Let me know what to add, if you have comments.thanks, I think that''s a good start. What I am still missing there is the e100 chipset, though - at least in Xen 3.2.x which I am still using, it is seems to be a supported chipset. Has it been dropped in favor of the e1000 emulation with 3.4? If I see the qemu-dm list of device models, it is even longer, but I don''t know if all of them exist in Xen''s qemu-dm as well. In addition, it would be really helpful for the user to get more details on the performance per chipset. I don''t know if it has to be in that guide, but it should be written down somewhere. How else do you pick the "right" chipset if you have the support for various of the chipsets in your guest OS? In addition, is there any detailed comparison of paravirtualized networking drivers vs. qemu-dm drivers? I found some details about it in some of the Xen Summit charts, but that was probably work in progress. Is there any "official" of the released versions? Maybe I am just not searching with the correct terms, so if those articles or documentation exists, a link with further reading material will be fine. Thanks! Regards, Martin ___________________________________________________________ NEU: Mit WEB.DE DSL über 1000,- ¿ sparen! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users