Re: bhyve VM not getting as much upload bandwidth as the host

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:30 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

> On 14/08/2023 10:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > I had the following in sysctl.conf:
> > net.link.tap.up_on_open=1
> > net.link.bridge.pfil_member=0
> > net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge=0
> > net.link.bridge.pfil_local_phys=1
> >
> > So I only did:
> > sysctl -w net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip=0
> > sysctl -w net.link.bridge.pfil_local_phys=0
> >
> > Nothing has changed for the linux VM.
> >
> > Windows11 VM is getting download/upload speed of 40Mbps/37Mbps while a
> > Debian12 VM is getting download/upload of 37Mbps/45Kbps.
> > Maybe there is an issue with the Linux itself?
>
> I never had this solved. Even my FreeBSD guest on FreeBSD host with
> VirtualBox is slow as few hunderds kB/s
> It was like 10Mbps with Bhyve. I only use VMs for testing but installing
> packages is always so slow. So you are not alone. I would really like to
> know how to improve the network speed with virtualized environment.
>
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
>

I had a FreeBSD VM for testing under bhyve and it did not suffer from this
upload speed hiccup.



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