Re: FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM

Avi Kivity
2007-09-27T09:38:22Z

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.

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