WindowsGuestDrivers/kvmnet/registry

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Windows registry settings

This page describes best practice for configuring Windows TCP\IP related parameters to archive the best performance with Windows guests. Those parameters are unrelated to kvm\VirtIO drivers , rather general Windows settings. After changing those setting reboot is required for the changes to effect the system.

Registry settings

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD\Parameters] "DefaultSendWindow"=dword:00100000 "DefaultReceiveWindow"=dword:00100000 "FastSendDatagramThreshold"=dword:00004000


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] "Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000001 "TcpWindowSize"=dword:00100000

  • Tcp1323Opts - allows the scaling of the TCP window above 16k. For more info read Tcp1323Opts
  • "DefaultSendWindow", "DefaultReceiveWindow" and "TcpWindowSize" control TCP window size
  • "FastSendDatagramThreshold" - controls fast UDP transmit.

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