Re: FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM

Farkas Levente
2007-09-27T09:08:46Z

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?

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