[OmniOS-discuss] Release 12 KVM poor network performance

[Dan McDonald]

> On Nov 29, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Machine Man <heinrich.vanriel at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Experience slow network performance after upgrading.
> Copying from another windows system (physical machine) it drops form the 85MB/s on R10 to between 9 and 14MB/s. Two systems experience the exact same symptom. Both make use of igb driver. 
> Copy tests are done between windows 8.1 and Windows 2012R2 VM.
> Changing to virtio for nic has no impact other than causing kvm to crash after copying ~400MB. 
>  
> Any ideas? 

We are behind the illumos-kvm-cmd distribution because it requires changes in illumos that Joyent hasn't pushed upstream just yet (the "vnd" project).  I'm hoping to address this for '014, but I have other 014-related things to do first.

Sorry,
Dan