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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen + Win2k3 HVM - Slow network

To: Sébastien RICCIO <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen + Win2k3 HVM - Slow network
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:24:04 +0200
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:29:11AM +0100, Sébastien RICCIO wrote:
> Keir Fraser a écrit :
> >The HVM guest is emulating a rtl8139 network card rather than using a
> >high-performance paravirtualised frontend network driver.
> >
> > -- Keir
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> 
> So that means that actually there is no way to tweak this to get a 
> better throughput ?
> Is a frontend driver planned ?
> 

Xensource and VirtualIron already have PV drivers for Windows, but they are
not freely available nor opensource :(

I wish those would be released to the public..

-- Pasi

> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Sébastien Riccio
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