[Spice-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10

[Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部]

Alon,

	We recently ran an Ubuntu 11.10 VM which was installed with VirtIO NIC driver. The VirtIO net driver came from 	the Ubuntu's default package. The VM we installed was configured as a bridge mode. When we ran the Iperf test 	against the VM, the network interface of the VM was fairly unstable. Sometimes, the network interface of the 	VM could not receive the packets and we needed to bright the network interface down and up in order to 	make it work. After we replaced the VirtIo Net driver with ne2k driver and it worked quite stably now.

	We know that the performance of virtIO is much better than ne2k in virtual environment. We would like to use 	virtio driver instead. If this is the virtio driver issue, can you tell us where to get the latest virtIO	driver for Ubuntu VM? Otherwise, tell us how to make the virtio net driver work in Ubuntu VM if you have ever 	had similar issue before.

	Thanks.