From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfwAp-0005cy-GM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfwAk-0005V8-EA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49607 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfwAj-0005Ul-Ss for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:50 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:59927) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfwAj-0003M0-IL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:49 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7PDSL8R027825 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:28:21 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n7PDYm2s145502 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:48 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n7PDVodh017695 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:31:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4A93E875.9030204@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:34:45 -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> <20090825132347.GB23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090825132347.GB23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 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: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Avi Kivity , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:45:24PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> 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). >> > > It used to not work with win2003 as well, but I thought someone recently > fixed the bug that caused that to happen. > > I use e1000 with win xp, although win xp has no driver at all for the > e1000 and requires you to download the intel driver and install that. > The intel driver also made win 2003 work before even though the microsoft > supplied driver did not work. > That seems to conflict with what Avi suggested (that there's a built-in driver). -- Regards, Anthony Liguori