[ovs-discuss] Inquiry about the vNIC link speed and the throughput of OVS

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:52:07AM +0000, ??????(?????? ?????????????? Project) wrote:
> Recently, I have been using OVS and OpenStack (Essex).
> I notice that VMs which are instantiated by OpenStack have 100Mbps vNICs
> But, the corresponding port of the OVS has 10Mbps vNIC, if I check it through ovs-vsctl command.
> I wonder if it is the correct behavior or not.
> 
> I also wonder if the virtual interface of OVS can be connected to the VM whose vNICS has 1Gbps link speed.
> In this case, I also wonder the throughput of 1Gbps vNIC. Can the throughput of the vNIC be 1Gbps?

A vNIC does not have a meaningful speed.  You may ignore any and all
information about the nominal speed of a vNIC, because it does not
matter.