virtio net adapter driver with kvm slow on winxp # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise #virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.4 Using library: libvirt 1.0.4 Using API: QEMU 1.0.4 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.2.0 windows xp clean install with spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe from http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe it comes very slow , and the Interrupts process got very high cpu usage(above 60%). when i switch the net adapter from virtio to default(rtl8139) ,it works well.