Re: [Qemu-devel] about NICs

["Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>]

On 9/14/07, Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 12:07:35 Sebastien WILLEMIJNS wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i noticed ubuntu LiveCD 7.04 QEMU emulation now only works with RTL8139
> > NICs (because NE2K drivers seems has been deleted from ISO)
> >
> > i'm not surprised because they are no "standard in facto" as SB for
> > sound and SVGA for graphic but i'd like in the future
> > adding some new NIC ROM if RTL8139 will be not available in ubuntu...
>
> Honestly, I thought that NE2000 *was* the de facto standard :P
>
>
>

Really ?

Look at the other virtualizers/emulators:
Realtek RTL8139 is the standard eth0 for MS VirtualPC 2007

I have not checked Parallels for ages but I believe it was the case too.

Does it matter ? You can always recompile the module needed and
add it to ubuntu (you may need to modify the iso).

I'll release soon DetaolB v0.7: it's a live CD, it may not be as big
as Ubuntu, but in this next release, network using eth0 ne2k works
and you'll be able to use network out-of-the-box if used inside qemu.

-- 
Christian
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