KVM, which NIC should I choose? (Debian)

[Afox]

Hello proxmox-community,

I´d like to know which NIC do you usually choose when creating new KVM-machine?

In my case I will install the machine from Debian-like-iso file.

Thanks for any answer!

Regards,

Afox

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,
Virtio has the best performance.

 

[m.ardito]

you should probably use the fastest for which your os has best support (drivers).
vitrio means paravirtualized, ie: using your pve host real hardware directly, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Network_Drivers_for_Windows as an example

usually linuxes can run all of them but that could depend on distribution and kernel used.

Marco