Vhost net

The “vhost_net” kernel module. This module allows libvirt to directly call into subsystems instead of using calls from userspace. This will mainly increase the performance of the virtual machine and is not a prerequisite to use the libvirt service.

$ sudo modprobe vhost_net

See also

• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM