Subject: Re: Slow network speed of WinXP on Xen 3 HVM
To: None <port-xen@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/08/2007 14:41:27 
jam@pobox.com (Kazushi (Jam) Marukawa) writes:

>WinXP on Xen    70KB/s
>NetBSD on Xen  250KB/s
>native WinXP   300KB/s

You didn't say what 'network speed' you measure.

In any case, such a difference is to be expected. WinXP
accesses a simulated network card and that simulation
carries a huge overhead.

You can get "paravirtualized" network drivers for
Windows with the commercial XenEnterprise version.

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