Freenas Virtio Drivers

VirtIO can provide better performance when the operating system installed in the VM supports VirtIO paravirtualized network drivers. By default, the VM receives an auto-generated random MAC address. To override the default with a custom value, enter the desired address in MAC Address.

I'm trying to run either FreeNAS 8.0.4 or NAS4Free 9 as a KVM guest on my Ubuntu 12.04 (server) but the network connection is unusably slow in either guest OS (when testing with rsync for example the connection starts off normal, at around 100MB/s, but then quickly fluctuates to 2MB/s tops). With NAS4Free I can use the e1000 (which doesn't work with FreeNAS) but it doesn't make any difference. Bridge networking is setup on the host and I've also tested the hard drive read write speeds within the host to make sure that wasn't where the bottleneck was coming from. I'm thinking that installing the VirtIO drivers may fix the problem, assuming there isn't some network setting I could have messed up on the host which is causing this? Proshivka fleshki kingston dt 101 g2 16gb.

However, I can't seem to figure out how to install VirtIO on either FreeNAS or NAS4Free. Since NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD 9 I started with this but even though NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD 9 it doesn't seem to be a full install? Thanks for your help!

Hello, I'm currently virtualizing my FreeNAS to VM on my proxmox. However, I have a problem. These are the tests I did.

On proxmox: For debian the LACP is working properly. (network virtIO bonding on vm) For freeNAS the LACP does not work.

(network virtIO lagg on vm) Physical machine Same test with a physical machine (same hardware/switch) FreeNAS work on LACP As a result I deduced the virtIO function on FreeNAS (11.1U6) does not work for the LACP (802.3ad). To solve this problem I would like to use the pci passthrough feature.

I tried to map my bonding from my host to my freenas, here is my performance.