[OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

[Dan McDonald]

> On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Dominik Hassler <hasslerd at gmx.li> wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
>>> After further testing I achieved 952 MBytes on a VM-2-VM
>>> connection...1
>>> linux Ubuntu 12.04 vm to another CentOS 6.6 VM running on two
>>> different SmartOS host machines (through an extreme networks switch).
> 
> if I got John correctly, he was running his second test on SmartOS hosts...
> 
> We did a lot of testing on OmniOS with -net vnic and -device
> virtio-net-pci but sadly to no avail...
> 
> I think we have to hope that SmartOS kvm improvements will get
> upstreamed sooner or later.

Ahh yes.

I was hoping to have them ready for 014, but it's a complicated process to upstream larger projects, and Joyent was in the middle of getting their new Triton release out the door.

Dan