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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:12:09 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network
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To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:23 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> The ne2k is an ancient card that performs pretty terribly under QEMU.  In many
>> modern OSes, there is no longer drivers available for the ne2k.
>>
>> Switch the default network adapter to e1000.  This card is more widely
>> suppported and performs rather well under QEMU.  There may be very old OSes
>> that had a ne2k driver but not an e1000 driver but I think this is likely the
>> exception.
>>
>> I think the average user is better served with an e1000 vs ne2k.
>>     
>
> Shouldn't ne2k continue to be the default for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10
>   

Hrm, doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this.  I guess we could 
change the pc_init functions for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10.  Any thoughts?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Mark.
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