[Info-vax] State of the Port - July 2017

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-20 kl. 23:37, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2017-07-18 21:27:18 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:
> 
>> Infiniband is designed for low latency.  If what you need is the lowest 
>> possible latency, Infiniband is likely a big win over ethernet.  If you 
>> need fastest throughput for bulk transfers, ethernet is likely a big win 
>> for you instead.
> 
> Ethernet is reaching well up into the same market Infiniband is aimed at, 
> and VSI is going to want to and need to go after better Ethernet support to 
> start with as it's far more broadly applicable.   Once the x86-64 port is 
> out and VSI has 40 GbE and 100 GbE and other related support available,...

Doesn't that come "for free" if you're running under a VM?
You get whatever netork support that the VM supports, not?