[fedora-virt] Poor performace for e1000 and other fully virtualized netcard

[Amit Shah]

On (Thu) 05 Sep 2013 [21:21:00], Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:22:45AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> > On (Thu) 05 Sep 2013 [15:26:52], Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > 
> > > As described in other bug, virtio net driver has time skew problems, so
> > > I can't use it. :-(
> > 
> > Please share details -- link to bug report or mail list post.
> 
> Thread 2 month ago here:
> 
>   https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2013-July/003714.html
> 
> or rhbz:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982459
> 
> Btw, latest 3.9 kernel for fc18 works well:
>   kernel-3.9.11-200.fc18.x86_64  -  fast network speed

That thread and bug says you have problems with virtio and Windows
guests.  You're here saying the kernel version matters.  Does this
mean that the host kernel version matters for you when you use e1000
or virtio-net cards with Windows guests?

		Amit