On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: > Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter > so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a guest. > > I'm not entirely certain as to where VirtualBox stands with regard to > PVOPS support [1] but it would probably also help to enable > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST (even though there are no directly applicable > sub-options).
How well or otherwise does it perform? I have a bunch of minimal VMs in a dev environment using Intel Pro1000, and have considered changing to virtio. But it's a lot of work to do[1] so someone else's opinion first would be nice. [1] They are Gentoo VMs but don't have sources installed and can't compile a kernel with the mere 256G RAM I give them. So the entire kernel+modules has to be built somewhere else and scp'ed to the VM. hence "lot of work" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
