How to get vm speed to 10G

[Ayush]

Hello Team.

I have recently installed card on Proxmox base box , I added bridge and attach that bridge to vm. But it is not showing speed as 10G. How can I get 10G speed on VM ?

 

[Ayush]

Available options does not show 10G drivers.

 

[Ayush]

Hi Team,

Base System shows that it has 10G card connection.

# ethtool eno1
Settings for eno1:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes: 10000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 10000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Auto-negotiation: off
Port: Direct Attach Copper
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Supports Wake-on: umbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
drv probe link
Link detected: yes

 

[Maximiliano]

VirtIO drivers are all that you need to setup on the Proxmox VE guest to see the best performance inside the guest, if it is a Windows guest you additionally need to install drivers.

I would suggest to perform network benchmarks with iperf:
- Whether the Proxmox VE host can actually reach 10G speeds. You can perform this test between the host and the closest thing to it, e.g. the network switch, or test it directly against another host which you know can reach that speed.
- Test the network speed between the guest VM and the host

 

[Ayush]

Hi Maximiliano,

Thanks for quick reply, Even with linux VM do I need to install virtio drivers ?

 

[justinclift]

Most Linux distributions will have the VirtIO driver built in.

So if you created the VM with a VirtIO network adapter then your Linux VM should automatically load it.

That's in theory anyway.

 

[Ayush]

How to verify that the version of linux I am using is having virtio drivers on it.

 

[Maximiliano]

If it has network then it it is using the correct drivers