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| 0001116 | Endian Firewall | Hardware related (kernel, drivers, hardware) | public | 2008-07-10 13:45 | 2010-11-22 11:51 | ||||
| Reporter | nicoprenzel | ||||||||
| Assigned To | peter-endian | ||||||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | have not tried | ||||
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||||||
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| Target Version | future | Fixed in Version | 2.4.1 | ||||||
| Summary | 0001116: Integrate KVM guest VirtIO drivers | ||||||||
| Description | I would highly appreciate to consider the integration of KVM-VirtIO guest drivers into EFW 2.2! Pherhaps, you should consider to remove the XEN support as it's integration is much more complicated. KVM has been evolved to a comparable virtualization technology. Furthermore there are indications that the linux community does prefer the KVM solution as it is completely integrated into the Linux kernel. See here for more: http://blog.codemonkey.ws/2008/05/truth-about-kvm-and-xen.html [^] The integration of KVM guest VirtIO drivers would speed up the IO throughput especially for network and disk utilization. See here how to build these drivers: http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Virtio [^] Thanks. NicoP. | ||||||||
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(0001435) steven (reporter) 2008-07-11 09:46 |
I would 2nd that recommendation |
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(0002165) nicoprenzel (reporter) 2009-04-20 11:28 |
Ping This feature would be fine. Please consider to apply it to the next EFW community version. Beside it will be easy to integrate. Updated build page: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio [^] Thanks. NicoP. |
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(0002975) pirip (reporter) 2009-09-21 11:35 |
Dear endian team, I strongly support this recommendation. I recently carried out a set of iperf measurements on a KVM virtual machine running endian 2.2. Despite the tested link is Gigabit ethernet, I could only see no more than 95 Mb/s, using the e1000 driver on the endian VM (the physical NIC being an Intel 82572EI). The same test, run on a Debian 5 VM with virtio supported, resulted in 500 Mb/s both inbound and outbound. Should the 2.3 version support virtio, the resulting improvement in network performance would be potentially dramatic! cheers, Piero |
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(0003110) nicoprenzel (reporter) 2009-10-14 19:30 |
Ping. Please, build/integrate the virtio kernel modules with your next EFW release!! Thanks. NicoP. |
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(0003768) nicoprenzel (reporter) 2010-02-11 16:18 |
Hopefully, endian 2.3.1 would get these drivers? Pherhaps some statements from the Endian team? Thanks. NicoP. |
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(0003817) mgabriel (reporter) 2010-02-18 17:12 |
I'd like to see this as well as we are going to deploy more and more endians (enterprise and open source) running as vms on kvm. |
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(0003833) peter-endian (administrator) 2010-02-22 19:42 |
hi guys.. sorry for the long silence.. we are hugely into structuring things right now,. next major release (planned for 2010/Q2) will contain a major kernel upgrade, which then includes also kvm, virtio and ballooning |
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(0004310) nicoprenzel (reporter) 2010-05-31 11:15 |
okay, with your EFW 2.4 release the kernel upgrade did also contain the virtio drivers. But you can't use it when you do a fresh install. It reports an error about a not found NIC, or so. But after you've done a fresh install and then switch to virtio usage, the EFW 2.4 does recognize the virtio NIC. But, you've missed to integrate the virtio disk drivers to your init image, I think. So you won't be able to boot a virtio driven disk. But i've to get into details a lot more. Thanks. NicoP. |
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| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
| 2008-07-10 13:45 | nicoprenzel | New Issue | |
| 2008-07-11 09:46 | steven | Note Added: 0001435 | |
| 2008-08-08 11:12 | peter-endian | Status | new => confirmed |
| 2008-08-08 11:13 | peter-endian | Target Version | => 2.3 |
| 2008-09-10 15:58 | chris-endian | Target Version | 2.3 => future |
| 2009-04-20 11:28 | nicoprenzel | Note Added: 0002165 | |
| 2009-09-21 11:35 | pirip | Note Added: 0002975 | |
| 2009-10-14 19:30 | nicoprenzel | Note Added: 0003110 | |
| 2010-02-11 16:18 | nicoprenzel | Note Added: 0003768 | |
| 2010-02-18 17:12 | mgabriel | Note Added: 0003817 | |
| 2010-02-22 19:42 | peter-endian | Note Added: 0003833 | |
| 2010-05-31 11:15 | nicoprenzel | Note Added: 0004310 | |
| 2010-09-24 08:58 | peter-endian | Status | confirmed => resolved |
| 2010-09-24 08:58 | peter-endian | Fixed in Version | => 2.4.1 |
| 2010-09-24 08:58 | peter-endian | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2010-09-24 08:58 | peter-endian | Assigned To | => peter-endian |
| 2010-11-22 11:51 | peter-endian | Status | resolved => closed |
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