e1000 and vmxnet3 selection per network adapter.

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spectrvm
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e1000 and vmxnet3 selection per network adapter.

Post by spectrvm » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:50 pm

Hi,

vMX 17.2 is pretty hungry to CPU. There is a way to make them consume much less resources. For that, on VFP network adapters 0 and 1 should remain e1000, but all others should be converted to VMXNET3. In VMware that decreases CPU utilization by 50%. Unfortunately, it seems that currently it's impossible to play that trick in EVE.

$p['qemu_nic'] = 'e1000'; - defines all network adapters. Can you please add a feature to change adapter type on per-adapter basis?

Thanks,
P.

ohsanpao19988
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Re: e1000 and vmxnet3 selection per network adapter.

Post by ohsanpao19988 » Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:03 am

spectrvm wrote:
Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:50 pm
Hi,

vMX 17.2 is pretty hungry to CPU. There is a way to make them consume much less resources. For that, on VFP network adapters 0 and 1 should remain e1000, but all others should be converted to VMXNET3. In VMware that decreases CPU utilization by 50%. Unfortunately, it seems that currently it's impossible to play that trick in EVE.

$p['qemu_nic'] = 'e1000'; - defines all network adapters. Can you please add a feature to change adapter type on per-adapter basis?

Thanks,
P.
I found cisco vxrv6.1.4 needs diffrent nic type too

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