Benchmark

[ToddAndMargo]

They don't work in VirtualBox.

I am looking at page 81 of the manual:

For Windows 2000, XP and Vista, virtio drivers can be downloaded and installed from the
KVM project web page.2

Are you sure?

-T

[Perryg]

I am sure. You need to be so work on it. Please don't experiment on live machines.
I have it working and you can too with some practice.

[ToddAndMargo]

I am sure. You need to be so work on it. Please don't experiment on live machines.
I have it working and you can too with some practice.

What drivers did you use in the guest?

[ToddAndMargo]

I am sure. You need to be so work on it. Please don't experiment on live machines.
I have it working and you can too with some practice.

What drivers did you use in the guest?

Okay, I took your advise and tried the para drivers on a VM I did not care much about: my 32 bit W7 pro. It is slower than h--- with Samba transfers too. I use the Red hat para drivers from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/vi ... mages/bin/. You have to use the iso to get the Vista drivers. Red Hat forgot them in the zip file. (I know you said they would not work, but since this was not a "working" VM, Vista/7 sucks and all, I gave it a try anyway.)

440 Meg test transfer:
Before: had to stop 3+ hours predicted. 26 KB/Sec
After: 1 min 32 sec. 5610 KB/sec

215 TIMES FASTER!!!

You are my absolute hero! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
-T

p.s.Now I try my working XP Pro (yes, I have wonderful backup!)

[ToddAndMargo]

Now I try my working XP Pro (yes, I have wonderful backup!)

274 meg transfer
before: PCnet Fast III, 1 min 26 sec
after: para driver, 1 min 38 seconds

Okay, that went backwards. Rats!

-T