Re: FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM

Laurent Vivier
2007-09-27T09:41:04Z

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>> A Fedora user reported that Vista networking isn't working with KVM[1] and
>>> pointed to the Wiki
>>>
>>> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Vista_Networking_Workaround
>>>
>>> FYI, a patch from Xen was merged into upstream QEMU to fix this problem
>>> with rtl8139 a week or two back and works nicely with KVM+Vista...
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org/msg11365.html
>>>
>>> ..avoiding need for messing around with ne2k drivers as mentioned in the wiki
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dan.
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=308201
>>>
>> does this means that in general use the ne2k driver is a better choice?
>> anyway is there a suggested network driver for the guests?
>>
>>
>
> No, it means I need to merge qemu-cvs.
>
> rtl8139 performs faster than ne2000.

But adding CRC computing in RTL839 should have some impacts on performance.

Laurent
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