controller, a paravirtualized network card, a paravirtualized serial port,
a paravirtualized SCSI controller, etc ...
-It is highly recommended to use the virtio devices whenever you can, as they
-provide a big performance improvement and are generally better maintained. Using
-the virtio generic disk controller versus an emulated IDE controller will double
-the sequential write throughput, as measured with `bonnie++(8)`. Using the
-virtio network interface can deliver up to three times the throughput of an
+TIP: It is *highly recommended* to use the virtio devices whenever you can, as
+they provide a big performance improvement and are generally better maintained.
+Using the virtio generic disk controller versus an emulated IDE controller will
+double the sequential write throughput, as measured with `bonnie++(8)`. Using
+the virtio network interface can deliver up to three times the throughput of an
emulated Intel E1000 network card, as measured with `iperf(1)`. footnote:[See
this benchmark on the KVM wiki https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Using_VirtIO_NIC]