From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:39:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A93DB68.40006@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/14/2009 07:23 PM, 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.
>>
>
> 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).
Is this a bug or is this not known to work?
I'd rather fix the e1000 bug than switch to rtl8139 which is still
awfully slow.
--
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 16:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target Anthony Liguori
2009-08-15 21:58 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapterfor " Sebastian Herbszt
2009-08-17 10:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for " Mark McLoughlin
2009-08-24 15:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-24 15:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-24 16:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 10:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 12:39 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-08-25 15:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 13:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 13:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 14:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 16:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 15:58 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 16:30 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 16:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 16:56 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 17:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 17:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 18:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-26 8:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 17:28 ` Reimar Döffinger
2009-08-26 5:47 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-25 20:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Bjørn Mork
2009-08-26 9:57 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 13:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil
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