From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfvIy-0006UZ-QC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:39:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfvIu-0006Sp-1M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:39:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33474 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfvIt-0006Sm-Qm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:39:11 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:51187) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfvIt-0002TZ-DI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:39:11 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7PCXRlw031434 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:33:27 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n7PCd5Mc185516 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:39:05 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n7PCd4nw028713 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:39:04 -0600 Message-ID: <4A93DB68.40006@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:39:04 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target. References: <1250267001-4431-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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