[libvirt-users] How can a bridge be optimized?

[Henrik Ahlgren]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 03:28:59PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> I get around 150Mb, (on a Gb interface). But then its still showing as
> "-device rtl8139" on the host. Should that be?

That clearly indicates you are not running with a virtio NIC. You
should see "-device virtio-net-pci" in the process list.

What versions of livirt and kvm/qemu are you running? What is the
guest's operating system? Does it also report rtl8139 (lshw, ethtool -i eth0)?