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I have file  a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1034216
and  upload a patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11008/

2012/8/8 Dan Wendlandt <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Emilien,
>
> I know of customers using virtio with Quantum, but I think they may have
> modified the template directly, as you mention below.
>
> This code in nova changed quite a bit from Essex -> Folsom.  Looking at
> nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py, I noticed that whoever added the
> libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges flag did not add it to the
> LibvirtOpenVswitchDriver class.  Based on the XML you show below, my guess
> would be that if you add the following lines prior to the return statement
> of the plug() method of that class, you would get the right XML:
>
> if FLAGS.libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges:
>       conf.model = "virtio"
>
> That said, I haven't tested it.
>
> Can you file a bug on this in nova?  Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Emilien Macchi <
> emilien.macchi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stackers,
>>
>>
>> I'm talking with Sebastien Han<http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/07/19/make-the-network-of-your-vms-fly-with-virtio-driver>about VirtIO Driver for network interfaces.
>>
>> We have two setup :
>>
>> 1) Ubuntu 12.04 / Essex / KVM
>>    network_manager=*nova.network*.manager.*VlanManager*
>>    libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges=true
>>
>> 2) Ubuntu 12.04 / Essex / KVM
>>    network_manager=nova.network.quantum.manager.QuantumManager
>>
>> linuxnet_interface_driver=nova.network.linux_net.LinuxOVSInterfaceDriver
>>    libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges=true
>>
>> What we have seen :
>>
>> - VMs booting from first setup have VirtIO driver for networking (Gigabit
>> ready). Here is the libvirt.xml for network part :
>>
>> <interface type='bridge'>
>> (...)
>>             <model type='virtio'/>
>> (...)
>> </interface>
>>
>> - VMs booting from second setup (with Quantum) don't use VirtIO driver
>> (No gigabit). Here is the libvirt.xml for network part :
>>
>> <interface type='ethernet'>
>>             <target dev='tapxxxxx' />
>>             <mac address='xxxx' />
>>             <script path='' />
>>  </interface>
>>
>> The only one way I found to use VirtIO driver with Quantum to modify
>> /usr/share/pyshared/nova/virt/libvirt.xml.template file and add :
>>
>> <model type='virtio'/>
>> (after line 125)
>>
>> So you must have something like this :
>> <interface type='ethernet'>
>> <target dev='${nic.name}' />
>> <mac address='${nic.mac_address}' />
>> <script path='${nic.script}' />
>> <model type='virtio'/>
>> </interface>
>>
>> And restart LibVirt service :
>> service libvirt-bin restart
>>
>>
>> What do you think about that ? Should we modify the template to get
>> Gigabit capacity or is there something wrong in my configuration ?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> --
>> Emilien Macchi
>> *System Engineer*
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