Comments on: Qemu network speed https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/05/07/qemu-network-speed/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: dgollub https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/05/07/qemu-network-speed/#comment-968 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:58:06 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=931#comment-968 Try:
qemu-kvm -net user,hostname=factory-pc -net nic,model=virtio ...

For some kvm training i did some very simple network benchmarking : rtl8139 (the default) is indeed the slowest. pcnet is a bit faster, but if you have the choice you might want to go with virtio-net. If you test openSUSE Factory i guess virtio-net should be available – even in the install initrd(?) (Guest: zgrep CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET /proc/config.gz) …

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