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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-changelog] PCNET NIC card support for qemu
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:03:21 -0700
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Out of pure curiousity, what's the advantage to emulating the PCNET 
> cared verses the NE2000?  It's it more virtualization friendly?  Is 
> there better guest OS support?
> 
> Does this bring us closer to being able to do fast binary driver emulation?
> 
> Very cool stuff.
> 

pcnet uses DMA. Ne2k doesn't.

	-Arun