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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:12:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A92ADC9.6000008@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250505286.23005.30.camel@blaa>

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:23 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> The ne2k is an ancient card that performs pretty terribly under QEMU.  In many
>> modern OSes, there is no longer drivers available for the ne2k.
>>
>> Switch the default network adapter to e1000.  This card is more widely
>> suppported and performs rather well under QEMU.  There may be very old OSes
>> that had a ne2k driver but not an e1000 driver but I think this is likely the
>> exception.
>>
>> I think the average user is better served with an e1000 vs ne2k.
>>     
>
> Shouldn't ne2k continue to be the default for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10
>   

Hrm, doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this.  I guess we could 
change the pc_init functions for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10.  Any thoughts?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
>
>   

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-24 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14 16:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target Anthony Liguori
2009-08-15 21:58 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapterfor " Sebastian Herbszt
2009-08-17 10:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for " Mark McLoughlin
2009-08-24 15:12   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-08-24 15:36     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-24 16:14       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 10:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 12:39   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 15:55     ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 13:23   ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 13:34     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 14:23       ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 16:00       ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 15:58     ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 16:30       ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 16:39         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 16:56           ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 17:11             ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 17:13               ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 18:19                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-26  8:32                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 17:28               ` Reimar Döffinger
2009-08-26  5:47           ` Amit Shah
2009-08-25 20:20       ` [Qemu-devel] " Bjørn Mork
2009-08-26  9:57         ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 13:51   ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil

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