[libvirt-users] connecting host and guest vm using a dummy nic

[Laine Stump]

On 05/02/2018 01:28 PM, daggs wrote:

>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 at 8:09 PM
>> From: "Laine Stump" <laine at redhat.com>

>>
>> Also, if virtio works, then *definitely* use that instead of e1000 - the
>> performance will be much better and overhead much lower.
>>
>>
> so any network test will do?
> 


Do you mean to test and see if virtio-net is acceptable for your guest
OS? If the guest OS has the driver for virtio-net, then definitely you
should use it. I've never heard of a case of any of the drivers that
emulate real hardware performing anywhere near as well as virtio-net.