[Hampshire] KQEMU bridge for multiple VM's performance probl…

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Author: Damian Brasher
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To: hampshire
Subject: [Hampshire] KQEMU bridge for multiple VM's performance problem
Damian Brasher wrote:

>The other issue when I have one or more VM's running is slow network

speed >and erratic latency, lost packets on commence of ping from another
host on >the LAN, i.e. my laptop or another machine and from the host
itself where >the ping responses are slightly better but I still loose
packets.

Update to this, the latency is due to mac address conflicts as QEMU used
the same mac for each VM if one is not defined.

>Has anyone a similar setup and managed to bind tap$ with a predefined mac
>and have the bridge work and also has good quality bridge speed /

network >preformance?

The real problem is that bridging does not work when you define a unique
mac address, but does when you omit a mac address...

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Damian Brasher
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