[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-docs 2/2] add general introduction and chapters matching the qm creation wizard in the GUI

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Mon May 23 17:19:04 CEST 2016


applied, great!

> +It is highly recommended to use the virtio devices whenever you can, as they 
> +provide a big performance improvement. Using  the virtio generic disk
> controller 
> +versus an emulated IDE controller will double the sequential write
> throughput, 
> +as measured with `bonnie++(8)`. Using the virtio network interface can
> deliver 
> +up to three times the throughput of an emulated Intel E1000 network card, as
> +measured with `iperf(1)`. footnote:[See this benchmark on the KVM wiki 
> +http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Using_VirtIO_NIC]

Seems "footnote:" is not included into manual pages? Maybe we can avoid
such formating, and simply include the text with the link?

+ Using the virtio network interface can deliver 
+up to three times the throughput of an emulated Intel E1000 network card, as
+measured with `iperf(1)` (See this benchmark on the KVM wiki 
+http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Using_VirtIO_NIC)

other opinions?




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