From: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:41:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FB7AB0.20301@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FB7A0E.3080801-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
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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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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 3:19 FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM Daniel P. Berrange
[not found] ` <20070927031945.GL29729-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-27 9:08 ` Farkas Levente
[not found] ` <46FB731E.8000907-lWVWdrzSO4GHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-27 9:38 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <46FB7A0E.3080801-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-27 9:41 ` Laurent Vivier [this message]
[not found] ` <46FB7AB0.20301-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-27 9:56 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-27 13:43 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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