Re: [Xen-users] pfSense HVM

[Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/06/10 01:23, Matej Zary wrote:
> Hello,
>
> looks like you have much better HW than I used - when I benched Linux HVM guest 
> on Athlon X2 1,9 GHz I got scary results (in a bad way of course) :D. 90 mbit/s 
> is not bad at all for emulated hvm guest - the questions is, how much CPU power 
> it consumes in the dom0 (qemu-dm process) and how many availabe cores do you 
> have. PV driver should solve this issue (or pci passthru for the WAN NIC and PV 
> driver for the LAN NIC). I got better results is some cases with the default 
> emulated NIC (realtek?),  but in majority, the emulated e1000 was better.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Matej
>
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>    
Hi Matej,

Well it's a quad core Xeon X3430 with 8GB of RAM. I'm using 
PCI-Passthrough for the WAN NIC, and e1000 for the LAN NIC. Since it's 
pfsense, it isn't easy (if at all possible) to get this going with PV.
So even though e1000 is a "gigabit" driver, 90Mb/s is ok for HVM you think?

Thanks

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