From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfw0J-0000EH-Uc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:24:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfw0E-0008WS-VD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:24:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53353 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfw0E-0008WN-Qk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:23:58 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:37853) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mfw0E-0001eh-K8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:23:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:23:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target. Message-ID: <20090825132347.GB23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <1250267001-4431-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com> From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:45:24PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > I am unable to get Windows XP to work with the e1000 device, either with > its built-in drivers or with Windows Update. I think it's better to > switch to rtl8139 (qemu-kvm's default for years now). It used to not work with win2003 as well, but I thought someone recently fixed the bug that caused that to happen. I use e1000 with win xp, although win xp has no driver at all for the e1000 and requires you to download the intel driver and install that. The intel driver also made win 2003 work before even though the microsoft supplied driver did not work. -- Len Sorensen