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

[daggs]

Greetings Laine,

> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 at 1:13 AM
> From: "Laine Stump" <laine at redhat.com>
> To: libvirt-users at redhat.com
> Cc: daggs <daggs at gmx.com>
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] connecting host and guest vm using a dummy nic
>
> 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.
> 

no, I mean test the virtual nic speed, will ipref work?
also, in the guest os, the module attached to the virtual nic is virtio-pci, is that expected?