bhyve current windows status

[Robert Crowston]

Thanks for the insight.

It’s a shame that MS doesn’t bundle the RedHat drivers in the installation image.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 00:54, Jason Tubnor <jason at tubnor.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 20:07, Robert Crowston <crowston at protonmail.com> wrote:
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>> nvme is faster than virtio-blk? It seems strange that a paravirtualized driver would be slower. Is that because of the regression you mention?
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> Not saying it is slower, just not any faster than the NVMe presentation that we have discovered in production. NVMe is the general direction storage is taking, doesn't require the drivers to be injected at installation time and lower usability friction.
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> The regression was due to a bug in the virtio-stor code that would nuke your storage as soon as the driver loaded after upgrading it the following boot. That was discussed on a bhyve call last year. It is no longer an issue with the latest driver if you wish to continue to use virtio-stor.
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> Cheers,
>
> Jason.