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

[Whit Blauvelt]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:24:24AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:

> The host is Ubuntu 10.10 with the 2.6.35-28-server kernel. Libvirt is
> 0.8.3-1ubuntu19.4, qemu-kvm is 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.11. Not sure how that
> relates to "Get kvm version >= 60" (from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio)
> but it's at least a "Kernel >= 2.6.25". 

Reading more carefully, the kernel requirement is only for the _guest_. 

> The guest is running Ubuntu 11.10 with the 3.0.0-20-virtual kernel.

That linux-kvm.org page also says, "At the moment the kernel modules are
automatically loaded in the guest but the interface should be started
manually (dhclient/ifconfig)". Now, I'm certainly hoping that's been fixed
by now. It doesn't require a manual ifconfig, right?

According to .config CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y for the guest.

Whit