From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfyun-0002ob-FL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfyuj-0002iC-Rv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53778 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfyuj-0002i5-O1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:29 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:52569) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mfyuj-00067o-E7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target. Message-ID: <20090825163028.GD23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <1250267001-4431-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com> <20090825132347.GB23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4A940A40.30608@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A940A40.30608@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 06:58:56PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Ok. IMO it's important for networking to work out of the box, so we > should avoid e1000 as default. Certainly for anything newer than XP it seems e1000 just works (or at least could be fixed so it works) and is very efficient. For XP though, it does not seem supported out of the box. One could always manually install the e1000 driver and then make it work, but it probably isn't a good default. Of course one could question whether XP should hold back good defaults for everything else, since after all linux as a guest would work very well with e1000 as would many other OS choices. -- Len Sorensen